Scheduling Conflict

When Gantt detects a scheduling conflict, it places a red warning sign next to the affected task bar.

To review and resolve the conflict:

Open the Task Details panel.
Select a resolution from the options provided, or manually resolve the conflict within the chart.

Resolve options for a link-based scheduling confict

Dependency-based Scheduling Conflicts

Issue dependencies may create conflicts when manual scheduling is enabled. For example, for finish-to-start dependencies, if a task is scheduled for a date earlier than its predecessor's Finish Date, Structure.Gantt will highlight this conflict.

To deal with the conflict, click the task and select one of the following actions:

Auto Schedule - Switches the task to Automatic Scheduling mode.
Respect Link - Changes the task Start Date to coincide with the predecessor's Finish Date. The task will stay in the Manual Scheduling mode.

When sprint-based scheduling is used, dependent issues in the same sprint will not be marked as a conflict, since they can be completed at any point during the sprint.

If Resource Leveling is active, any leveling delays affecting the item will be removed when Respect Link or Auto Schedule is selected.

Duration/Work Estimate Conflicts

If a task is scheduled for a fixed duration shorter than its work estimate, you will receive an error message.

Resolve options for a duration-based scheduling conflict

When this occurs, you have a few options to resolve the conflict:

Reduce Estimate - Reduces the task's work estimate to match its duration.
Increase Duration - Increases the tasks duration to match its work estimate. If the task was scheduled based on sprints, a manual Start Date will be added to coincide with the start of its sprint and the task will be manually scheduled based on that date.

Sprint-based scheduling

If the task is scheduled by sprint, you will have the following options to resolve the conflict:

Auto Schedule - Removes manual scheduling.
Reduce Estimate - Reduces the task's work estimate to match its duration.

Resolve options for a sprint-based scheduling conflict

The Increase Duration option is unavailable because changing the start date would have no effect when sprints take precedence.