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Project Management Report-69

The document outlines task linking methods in project management, including Start to Start (SS) and Finish to Finish (FF) relationships, as well as the use of lag or lead times. It explains how to link tasks using various methods and emphasizes the importance of highlighting tasks before linking. Additionally, it discusses the organization of tasks under summary tasks in Microsoft Project to facilitate management and reporting.

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Project Management Report-69

The document outlines task linking methods in project management, including Start to Start (SS) and Finish to Finish (FF) relationships, as well as the use of lag or lead times. It explains how to link tasks using various methods and emphasizes the importance of highlighting tasks before linking. Additionally, it discusses the organization of tasks under summary tasks in Microsoft Project to facilitate management and reporting.

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• Start to Start (SS)

• Finish to Finish (FF)

We can also fine tune these relationships by specifying Lag or Lead times as required.

Linking of Tasks can be achieved by making the appropriate entry in any of the task
views or highlighting the tasks and using the link button on the Tool Bar, or by using the
Edit, Link Tasks command

Note: You need to highlight the tasks you want to link before trying to link them. Use the
mouse while holding down the [Ctrl] and/or [Shift] button(s) to do this

 Links are most clearly shown in the Network


Diagram
• Enter some of the links by completing the Predecessor ID in the
lower pane.

• Add some of the links by selecting them and using the linking
button.

Defining the Summary Tasks


Microsoft Project provides the ability to structure the tasks by setting different levels of
tasks and grouping tasks under a summary task. This can be useful where the project has
a considerable number of tasks; management can be made easier by only viewing and
reporting on the summary tasks.

There are five buttons on the far left of the Formatting Toolbar which can be used on a
single task or group of highlighted tasks.

• Promote the selection to the next higher level

• Demote the selection to the next lower level

• Expands a summary task to show its subordinate tasks

• Collapse a summary task to hide the subordinate tasks

• Hide assignments

• Show all subtasks, or those of a particular outline level.

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