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Link tasks to create dependencies

Link tasks to create dependencies - Microsoft Project Tutorial

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Link tasks to create dependencies

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If your tasks don't happen at the same time, which we know none of us have all of our tasks lined up at the same time. Link them together by setting dependencies and watch how the scheduling engine in project calculates all the tasks in your plan. Linking tasks together is done to represent those scheduling relationships where a predecessor drives a successor. You may also be familiar with a more modern terms driver and driven by. Before we show you the technique to link tasks, let's discuss the four relationship types. So let's do the first type. That's the finish to start. And the first item is always the predecessor, the second item is your successor. Predecessors drive successors. Here's an interesting takeaway, you can think of P as in parent and parents drive their kids hopefully for good behavior. But let's do a common finish to start relationship type. So let's say your birthday's coming up, you've finished receiving your gifts, that drives the start of opening them. If your…

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