Resource Scheduling Flexibility
By assigning scheduling attributes to an activity, you can increase or decrease the flexibility with which Open Plan performs resource scheduling.
Activity splitting, stretching, and reprofiling are three techniques that can be used to add flexibility to the treatment of an activity during resource scheduling. Each of these techniques can be regarded as a way to improve the performance of a project by relaxing the rules of resource scheduling in a particular way.
It is also possible to assign the Immediate attribute to an activity. The Immediate attribute removes flexibility from resource scheduling calculations by forcing Open Plan to schedule an activity at the earliest possible date.
You can assign scheduling attributes to an activity by using the Advanced tab of the Activity Details dialog box.