{
  "id": 3283244,
  "title": "I built a dependency-driven scheduling engine entirely in Excel/VBA",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/i-built-a-dependency-driven-scheduling-engine-entirely-in-excel-vba",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-25T14:17:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/tmailletfr/i-built-a-dependency-driven-scheduling-engine-entirely-in-excelvba-4hbf"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Most Excel Gantt charts are not really project schedules. They can display tasks and dates, but the scheduling logic usually remains manual. If one activity moves, someone has to update every dependent task, redraw the chart and check whether the critical path has changed. I kept encountering this situation in environments where teams were expected to maintain credible project schedules, but…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}