RPAX Risk Items: Invalid Date

What it is: The Critical Path Engine has recognized updates to the project's timeline, but these dates have not been applied to the project plan. This could be updates based upon new SmartTasks being added to the project and associated with other tasks via dependencies, due to delays in work, or changes in durations.

Why it matters: The project plan is not currently accurate, so the forecasted work and completion dates calculated by Office are not reliable. In the example below note the cascading impact on the downstream SmartTasks in the Critical Path caused by updating the status of the first item in the workstream. The dates that are no longer valid appear to the right of the red x, the newly proposed dates appear to the right of the blue "forward" icon. 


What's next: Review the invalid dates and the proposed updates. If they suit you, click the Update Timeline button.