Advanced Roadmap Automatic Date Adjustments on Tasks

[Jeanne Higgins]

Hi Everyone,

I have created a Project Plan in Advanced Road Maps.  Is there a way to do the following:

Set it so that the dates automatically update based on the Estimation for the task or if I change a date on one task that it automatically adjusts the start and end dates of other dependency tasks much like Microsoft Project or Smartsheet does.  I don't have time to manually update every date for every dependency task or tasks that follow the tasks that I updated the date on.   Many times you Microsoft Project or Smartsheet you can change the duration of a task and all tasks that have dependencies on this task automatically adjust without any manual intervention.

[Stephen Sifers]

Hello Jeanne,

Yes, you are able to use scheduling within Advanced Roadmaps. The scheduler uses the following factors to create a sensible schedule of your team's work items:

• Estimates, and required skills and capacity
• Team schedules, e.g. working in either sprint iterations or in a continuous flow of daily tasks
• Work stages, e.g. whether activities can happen either in parallel or in a specific sequence in the plan
• The sequence of work items, based on start and end release dates

• The ranking of work items in the backlog
• Dependencies between work items in the backlog
• Configurable constraints, e.g. how many people can work in parallel on a story
• The skills of each team member
• Availability of teams and people, taking into account holidays

Source and how to implement: Scheduling behavior 

Additional information on Auto-schedule issues 

I hope the information above assists with offloading your current manual workflow.

Regards,
Stephen Sifers