Building an External Scheduling Engine for D365 Project Operations | Creating and editing the WBS

Creating and editing the WBS in Dynamics 365 Project Operations (External Scheduling) When you enable external scheduling in Dynamics 365 Project Operations, the platform expects your plan to be written into a set of related planning tables (Dataverse). Your scheduling engine doesn’t just calculate dates—it must also keep the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) consistent across tasks, assignments, and dependencies. […]

Building an External Scheduling Engine for D365 Project Operations | Status Date Scheduling: Pushing Remaining Work Forward

Status Date Scheduling: Pushing Remaining Work Forward In the previous topic we covered how a planned work contour distributes effort over time. The next step is harder (and more important in real life): what happens when “today” moves forward and the plan contains work that hasn’t actually been earned yet? This post explains status date (sometimes called “data date”) from first […]