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Microsoft: Project 2013 Plain & Simple
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Microsoft: Project 2013 Plain & Simple

by Ben Howard
May 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
240 pages
5h 19m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 6. Linking the tasks

In this section:

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 ...

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