{"id":15033,"date":"2016-04-27T10:25:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T10:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/?p=15033"},"modified":"2016-04-27T10:25:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T10:25:02","slug":"how-project-schedule-activities-are-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/how-project-schedule-activities-are-related\/","title":{"rendered":"How Project Schedule activities are related?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Project scheduling is a constant activity for a Project Manager. There are multiple challenges a project managers face when it comes to making sure the timelines are met and the project is going as per schedule or project schedule is able to absorb the challenges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It&#8217;s very important to understand for a project manager how different activities are related to each other. Without which any adoption or control of project schedule will be near to impossible. Relationships in a network diagram are defined depending upon the type of project and project needs\/constraints.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">From PMP\u00ae prospective, there are four types of relationships one activity can have with another<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>Finish to Start<\/li>\n<li>Finish to Finish<\/li>\n<li>Start to Start<\/li>\n<li>Start to finish<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Finish to Start (FS)<\/span>: As per PMBOK\u00ae<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has \ufb01nished.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Example: The awards ceremony (successor) cannot start until the race (predecessor) has \ufb01nished.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ProjectSchedule-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ProjectSchedule-1.png\" alt=\"ProjectSchedule-1\" width=\"542\" height=\"90\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15035\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Finish-to-finish (FF)<\/span>: As per PMBOK\u00ae<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot \ufb01nish until a predecessor activity has \ufb01nished.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Example: Writing a document (predecessor) is required to \ufb01nish before editing the document (successor) can \ufb01nish..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ProjectSchedule-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ProjectSchedule-2.png\" alt=\"ProjectSchedule-2\" width=\"321\" height=\"177\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15036\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Start-to-start (SS):<\/span> As per PMBOK\u00ae<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Example: Level concrete (successor) cannot begin until pour the foundation (predecessor) begins<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ProjectSchedule-3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ProjectSchedule-3.png\" alt=\"ProjectSchedule-3\" width=\"381\" height=\"171\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15037\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Start-to-finish (SF):<\/span> As per PMBOK\u00ae<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot \ufb01nish until a predecessor activity has started.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Example: The \ufb01rst security guard shift (successor) cannot \ufb01nish until the second security guard shift (predecessor) starts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ProjectSchedule-4.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ProjectSchedule-4.png\" alt=\"ProjectSchedule-4\" width=\"671\" height=\"138\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15038\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project scheduling is a constant activity for a Project Manager. There are multiple challenges a project managers face when it comes to making sure the timelines are met and the project is going as per schedule or project schedule is able to absorb the challenges. It&#8217;s very important to understand for a project manager how different activities are related to each other. Without which any adoption or control of project schedule will be near to impossible. Relationships in a network diagram are defined depending upon the type of project and project needs\/constraints. From PMP\u00ae prospective, there are four types of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[754,765,1243,1319,1369,1425,1458,1488],"class_list":["post-15033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-management","tag-ff","tag-fs","tag-pmp","tag-project-scheduling","tag-relationships","tag-schedule","tag-sf","tag-ss"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"profile_24":false,"profile_48":false,"profile_96":false,"profile_150":false,"profile_300":false,"tptn_thumbnail":false,"web-stories-poster-portrait":false,"web-stories-publisher-logo":false,"web-stories-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Sparsh Goyal","author_link":"https:\/\/www.whizlabs.com\/blog\/author\/sparsh\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Project scheduling is a constant activity for a Project Manager. 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