From the course: Microsoft Project 2019 Essential Training
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Add lag or lead time to task links
From the course: Microsoft Project 2019 Essential Training
Add lag or lead time to task links
- [Narrator] Sometimes, there's a delay or overlap between linked tasks. Especially, finish to finish links. The predecessor finishes and then a little while later, the successor wraps up. Project links can handle delays and overlaps. Let's start with the first two tasks here. Submit permit application and start construction. Suppose that there's a ten day delay between submitting an application and then getting the response so you can start construction. We're gonna create lag between these two tasks. I'm going to select the start construction task. Then, down in the task form, click the predecessor name cell click the down arrow and choose my predecessor, submit permit application. In the type cell, I'm going to choose finish to start. Now, in the lag cell, I'm going to type in my lag, 10D for the ten days that we have to wait. When I click okay, now I see that ten days after the finish of the application task, we have our milestone scheduled. With an overlap, you use a negative…
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