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Carmen400
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Jun 02, 2021

Linking strategy for project

Hello! I am learning MS Project because I have a large file at work that needs to be updated and a lot of work done on it. I am currently learning all about predecessors and I am wondering if there i...
  • John-project's avatar
    Jun 02, 2021

    Carmen400,

    Unfortunately it sounds like you're starting off on the wrong foot. Do NOT link summary lines. See this Wiki article:

    https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/29569.ms-project-linking-andor-assigning-resources-to-summary-tasks.aspx 

     

    As far as the best practice for linking tasks, the approach should be to review the plan to uncover the logical sequence of tasks to be performed, then link those tasks. The majority of links should be from finish of the predecessor task(s) to the start of the successor task(s) [finish-to-start or "FS"]. ALL tasks should have at least one successor, even if it's the finish milestone in the plan and all tasks should have at least on predecessor, except for tasks that start at project start, or, have special circumstances that validate the task starting independently (e.g. a resource will only be available after a certain time).

     

    Do not links tasks that are not truly dependent, the idea is to create a valid logical sequence (network).

     

    Hope this helps.

    John

     

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