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In the Trenches with Microsoft® Office Project 2007
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In the Trenches with Microsoft® Office Project 2007

by Elaine J. Marmel
January 2009
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
352 pages
8h 30m
English
Microsoft Press
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What Causes Unexpected Start Dates?

So you’ve plowed through this chapter, working on dependencies and constraints in your project, and you notice that a successor task’s start date doesn’t match the predecessor’s finish date. You’ve stuck to simple finish-to-start dependencies, so what’s happening?

It’s important to remember that a finish-to-start dependency tells Project only that the successor cannot start before the predecessor finishes. The dependency doesn’t necessarily drive the successor task’s start date.

First, it’s possible that you incorporated lag or lead time between the tasks. It’s also possible that your project is set to calculate manually and you’ve made changes without recalculating your project. Press the F9 key to calculate ...

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