BUS528 Project Management: Chapter 7

Realistic Scheduling

"Chapter 7 Ideas"

The planning model in this chapter portrays the step-by-step mothod of building a detailed plan. Laying out a detailed plan may not solve all the problems you'll face as a project manager, but it does provide a tool set for solving many of them.

• Finish-to-start relationship states that one task must be completed before its successor task can begin. The network diagrams in this chapter all follow this simple assumption because it is the most common, but there are toher types of relationships.

• Tasks with start-to-finish (SS) relationships allow the sucessor task to begin when the predecessor begins.

• Finish-to-finish (FF) tasks can start independently of each other, but the successor cannot finish unitil the predecessor finishes.

Examples below show the value of using these other types of task relationships.