Now that our baseline schedule is complete and conforms to the task level and the links allowing the calculation, it also as to respect the contractual requirement.
Adjusting the project duration
You will have to adjust the project duration often according to the baseline schedule whether it shows a short, ideal, or longer than anticipated duration.
You can use the Track end date button 
of the Analysis tool group in the Construction tab to see how your adjustments impact the baseline schedule.
Here are the steps to adjust the duration of a project.
- Check critical constraint.
- Adjust task duration of the critical procurement tasks
- Adjust project execution logic
- Adjust the duration of the critical tasks
Adjust the costs or the risks
You will also have to execute the project within the contractual deadline at the best cost possible.
Here we will be able beyond the logical or ideal, to report some works, move them forward to allow for example not being in winter conditions which bring more cost and a longer duration to execute the task. For instance, the masonry can be done after the building envelope but if we fall under winter conditions it will then be better to wait for spring, we then add a winter constraint which will apply as a predecessor to the masonry task.
