Chapter 2. How Dependencies and Constraints Affect Your Project
DEPENDENCIES AND CONSTRAINTS are two features in Microsoft Office Project 2007 most likely to drive the timing of your project; therefore both play a big role in the way your schedule reads. In this chapter, I’m going to explore a variety of topics concerning dependencies and constraints.
What Are Dependencies?
If you don’t use dependencies, Project assigns to every task a start date or a finish date that matches the project’s start date or finish date—the one you set up in the Project Information dialog box in the previous chapter. In such a scenario, calculating how long the project ...
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