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Achieve a 90+ Quality Score

Time: ~15 minutes Level: Intermediate Applies to: Free · Pro · Enterprise

What You Will Learn​

By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to:

  • Read the quality dashboard and understand the scoring system
  • Identify failing checks and see which activities they affect
  • Fix the most common quality issues (missing logic, high duration, hard constraints)
  • Adjust quality thresholds when your project legitimately needs them
  • Raise your overall score above 90

Prerequisites​

  • A Kazinex account (any tier)
  • A schedule uploaded with activities and relationships (see Your First 15 Minutes)

Step 1 — Open the Quality Dashboard​

Navigate to the quality analysis view.

  1. Open a schedule from the Projects tab.
  2. Click the Quality tab in the main navigation.
  3. The quality dashboard loads and displays your overall score and letter grade.

What you should see: A large score number (0–100) with a letter grade (A+ through F). Below the score, quality check categories are listed with individual scores.

Step 2 — Understand the Scoring System​

Learn how the overall score is calculated.

  1. Each quality check runs against your schedule and returns pass, warning, or fail.
  2. Checks are grouped into categories: Logic, Duration, Constraints, Critical Path, Resources, Progress, Configuration, Best Practice, and Regional.
  3. Each category contributes a weighted percentage to the overall score.
  4. An activity that fails a check reduces the category score proportionally.

What you should see: Category rows each show a sub-score. The overall score is a weighted average of all category scores.

Step 3 — Identify Failing Checks​

Find the checks that are dragging your score down.

  1. Expand the Logic category by clicking its row.
  2. Individual checks appear: Missing Successors, Missing Predecessors, Redundant Logic, and others.
  3. Checks that fail appear with a red icon and a count of affected activities.
  4. Checks that warn appear with an amber icon.
  5. Passing checks appear with a green icon.

What you should see: A list of checks with colour-coded status. Focus on the red (failed) checks first — they have the biggest impact on your score.

Step 4 — Open the Check Detail Drawer​

See exactly which activities are affected by a failing check.

  1. Click on a failing check (for example, Missing Successors).
  2. The Check Detail Drawer opens on the right.
  3. It lists every activity that failed this check, showing the Activity ID, Activity Name, and WBS path.
  4. Note the activity codes so you can navigate to them in the Activities tab.

What you should see: A panel listing affected activities. If 12 activities are missing successors, all 12 appear in the drawer with links to their details.

Step 5 — Fix Missing Successor Relationships​

Add the missing logic links.

  1. Navigate to the Activities tab.
  2. Filter or search for the first affected activity (using the Activity ID from Step 4).
  3. Open the Relationship Editor or right-click the activity.
  4. Add a Finish-to-Start relationship to an appropriate successor activity.
  5. Repeat for each activity listed in the drawer.

What you should see: As you add relationships, dependency arrows appear in the Gantt chart. The activities now have a logical successor.

Step 6 — Fix Missing Predecessor Relationships​

Repeat the process for activities lacking predecessors.

  1. Return to the Quality tab and click on Missing Predecessors.
  2. Open the drawer and note the affected activities.
  3. In the Activities tab, add predecessor relationships to each one.
  4. Ensure no activity (except the project start milestone) lacks a predecessor.

What you should see: Your Logic category score improves as you add the missing links. The check moves from red to green when all activities have predecessors.

Step 7 — Fix High Duration Activities​

Reduce unreasonably long activity durations.

  1. Return to the Quality tab and expand the Duration category.
  2. Click on High Duration to see activities exceeding the threshold (default: 44 working days).
  3. Open the Check Detail Drawer to see the list.
  4. In the Activities tab, review each activity. Either:
    • Break it into smaller activities (preferred), or
    • Reduce its duration if the original estimate was too high.
  5. After fixing, return to Quality to verify the check passes.

What you should see: The Duration category score increases. Activities with reasonable durations (under the threshold) pass the check.

Step 8 — Fix Hard Constraints​

Remove unnecessary constraints that override CPM logic.

  1. Expand the Constraints category.
  2. Click on Hard Constraints to see activities with Must Start On, Must Finish On, or similar forced constraints.
  3. For each activity, evaluate whether the constraint is truly required.
  4. Replace hard constraints with softer alternatives (Start On or After, Finish On or Before) where possible.
  5. Remove unnecessary constraints entirely.

What you should see: The Constraints category score improves. Activities using only soft constraints (or no constraints) pass the check.

Step 9 — Adjust Thresholds (If Needed)​

Sometimes your project legitimately needs different thresholds.

  1. Click the gear icon on the Quality tab to open Quality Settings.
  2. Find the High Duration threshold (default: 44 days).
  3. If your project has legitimately long activities (for example, procurement lead times of 60 days), adjust the threshold to 60 days.
  4. Review other thresholds and adjust only where your project genuinely requires it.
  5. Click Save.

What you should see: The quality score recalculates with the updated thresholds. Only adjust thresholds when you have a valid reason — inflating the score by loosening all thresholds defeats the purpose.

note

Adjusting thresholds is appropriate when your project type justifies different standards. For example, infrastructure projects often have longer activity durations than building projects.

Step 10 — Verify Your Score​

Check that your fixes raised the score above 90.

  1. Return to the Quality tab.
  2. Review the overall score — it should have increased after your fixes.
  3. Check each category to ensure no red (failing) checks remain.
  4. If the score is still below 90, repeat Steps 3–8 for any remaining failing checks.

What you should see: An overall quality score above 90 with a grade of A or A+. All major checks pass with green icons.

What's Next?​

Troubleshooting​

IssueSolution
Quality score does not update after fixesReturn to the Quality tab and wait a moment for the engine to recalculate. Try refreshing the page.
Check Detail Drawer is emptyThis means no activities fail the check. Expand a different check that shows a red icon.
Score above 90 but some checks still failFailing minor checks may not prevent a 90+ score if other categories compensate. Focus on critical failures first.
Cannot change quality settingsQuality Settings may require Pro or Enterprise tier. Free tier users see read-only settings.
After adding relationships, score worsensAdding relationships may reveal new issues (for example, negative float). Run a CPM calculation and address any new warnings.