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also mentioned that the tasks may overlap. Once the initial schedule is for-
mulated, the project management may look for the possibilities of overlap-
ping the tasks, besides the already shown parallel tasks. In this example, the
end of Task 1 and the beginning of Task 2 may overlap. The overlapping of
subtasks, Task 3a, 3b, and 3c with Task 4a, 4b, and 4c would be a lot trickier
because a different person—a person who is committed to writing test
scripts but may not have completed the writing task—must perform the
review. Without including the column on resource assignment in the initial
schedule, these kinds ...