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What happens if a milestone slips?

A slipping milestone often drags other dates along with it. The AI traces the dependencies through the plan and predicts how the dates will shift. The recalculation in Merlin Project is what counts.

Which tasks depend on the milestone {NAME}, and what happens to them if the milestone is delayed by {PERIOD}?

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5 questions for your project plan: examples to copy

Five prompts for Merlin Project and AI: overdue tasks, schedule risk, plan vs. actual, milestone shift, and status update, with tips for checking results.

19.10.2026 Read the blog post ›

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What happens if someone is out?

Play through what happens in the active project if the resource {RESOURCE} is out for two weeks starting {DATE}: Which tasks shift, which milestones are at risk, and how does the end date change? Do not change anything …

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How safe is my end date, really?

Read the tasks, durations, and dependencies of the active project and run a Monte Carlo simulation with 10,000 iterations: Write a short script for it, assume a plausible variance for each task, and execute it. Then …

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How do I catch up two weeks of delay?

Show options to catch up {PERIOD} of delay in the active project: Which tasks can run in parallel, where would additional resources help, and which buffers are still unused? Rate each option by time gained, risk, and …

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