Microsoft: Project 2013 Plain & Simple

Chapter 6. Linking the tasks

In this section:

• Linking dependent tasks

• Changing the dependency type

• Unlinking tasks

• Adding a lag or lead time to a dependency

• Displaying task paths

Tasks within a project are often dependent upon one another—for example, the completion date of one task determines when another can start. Tasks linked by a dependency are called either a predecessor task (the driving task) or a successor task (the driven task). These links between tasks are called dependencies, and there are four types: Finish to Start, Start to Start, Finish to Finish, and Start to Finish. The default dependency type is Finish to Start.

Dependency Type	Example	Description
Finish to Start (FS) dependency	The default dependency type is Finish to Start. The finish ...