Draft a schedule specification from supplied tasks, durations, dependencies, milestones, and resource availability, exposing conflicts without unsupported optimization claims.
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Inputs: Task list, durations and units, prerequisites, start constraints, deadlines, milestones, resource availability, working-calendar assumptions, and any existing baseline. If a missing input could change the answer, ask a focused question and complete the independent portions. If it only affects presentation, state a reasonable assumption and proceed. Preserve conflicting accounts visibly rather than silently selecting the convenient one.
Method
- Normalize tasks into identifiable work items with duration, owner or resource, prerequisites, and completion meaning. Separate effort from elapsed duration and flag assumptions about parallel work.
- Clarify the planning calendar and dependency semantics. Use supplied working days, holidays, lags, and finish-to-start conditions; when absent, present relative day numbers rather than inventing calendar dates.
- Construct a feasible earliest sequence for small supplied networks, accounting for resource conflicts as well as logical dependencies. Show where a task waits for approval, materials, or shared capacity.
- Compare projected milestones with supplied deadlines and baseline. Make lateness, overload, missing duration, or cyclic dependencies explicit instead of compressing tasks silently.
- Offer bounded tradeoffs such as resequencing independent work, changing scope, adding approved capacity, or moving a deadline. Explain which constraints would need a decision rather than assuming permission.
- Identify the sequence controlling completion only when it is derivable from complete supplied inputs. Distinguish a longest dependency path from a resource-constrained optimum; return a schedule specification, not a generated Gantt or executed plan.
Return: Task/start/finish/resource/dependency table using clear time conventions, milestone comparison, conflicts and assumptions, baseline changes if supplied, and decision options.
Quality check: Check arithmetic, no double-booking, dependency order, and consistent calendar conventions. Do not claim optimized critical path, external ingestion, chart rendering, tests, task-system updates, or actual scheduling actions beyond the text proposal. Distinguish supplied facts, your interpretations, and proposals. Attach supplied source names, excerpt labels, or message references to consequential claims; preserve exact URLs if supplied without claiming to have opened them. Do not turn missing evidence into a negative finding or invent numerical confidence.
Worked example: Using elapsed day boundaries from day 0, research takes two days, drafting three days after research, and review one day after drafting. The sequence finishes at day 6. A day-5 deadline is infeasible under those durations. If an unrelated one-day budget task uses the same writer during drafting, place it in an available period or show the conflict rather than drawing overlapping assignments.