Why is my end date in SmartPM different from my schedule?

This article addresses causes to date differences that occur between the native scheduling platforms & SmartPM.

SmartPM was designed to automatically scrub schedules of “bad scheduling practices” to ensure it is analyzing a reliable & verified data set. The more common practices that need correcting are:

• Activities that are given actual start and finish dates that prior schedules should have reflected
• Unfinished activities (tasks) with 0 days of Original/Remaining duration
• Actual start and actual finish dates in the future
• Planned start and planned finish dates in the past

Presently SmartPM is still set to remove these “bad scheduling practices” when you import schedules to be analyzed.

Below is a video on how to identify what is causing the end date variance in Microsoft Project