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Once you have completed entering the task relationships as mentioned, your project should appear as shown in
You can notice that the default task relationship type (FS - Finish-to-Start) is not
indicated with code by Microsoft Project.
Essentially the relationships have the following implications:
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Finish-to-Start: The successor task cannot start until the predecessor task has finished
Start-to-Start: The successor task cannot start until the predecessor task has started
Finish-to-Finish: The successor task cannot finish until the predecessor task has finished
Start-to-Finish: The successor task cannot finish until the predecessor task has started
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Thus, proof-reading for a book can be started as soon as the first few pages have been written, and we need not
wait for the composition of the entire volume to be completed.
Coding for an application can be started as soon as the initial designs for some components are ready (as
practiced in Agile methodology), instead of waiting for the entire design to be completed (as practiced in Waterfall
methodology).
Finish-to-Finish is a very rarely used relationship. One complicated example can be the relationship between
watering a garden and fertilizing the plants in the garden. As you can see, the plants have to be watered before
fertilizing can start. However, the plants must be wet as long as the fertilizing process is going on. Hence we can
impose a Finish-to-Finish relationship between the two tasks "Fertilize the Garden" and "Water the plants in the
garden."
Another example is the relationship between the tasks "Add wiring" and "Inspect electrical". Here "Inspect
electrical" cannot finish until "Add wiring" finishes. Thus, here again there is a Finish-to-Finish relationship
between the two tasks. Thus, this kind of relationship, though rare, does exist between two tasks which are
related to each other in such a way that one task cannot finish until the other task finishes.