Planning Using Primavera: Suretrak Project Manager Version 3.0

9.1: Understanding Relationships

9.1 Understanding Relationships

There are four types of relationship available in SureTrak:

  • Finish-to-Start (FS) (also known as conventional)

  • Start-to-Start (SS)

  • Start-to-Finish (SF)

  • Finish-to-Finish (FF)

Two other terms you must understand are:

  • Predecessor, an activity that controls the start or finish of another activity and

  • Successor, an activity whose start or finish depends on the start or finish of another activity.

The FS (or conventional) relationship looks like this: While the SS relationship is like this:

The SF relationship looks like:

The FF relationship would be:

An example of a FS with positive lag:

and an example of a FS with negative lag:

Tip

You must be careful when using a lag to allow for delays such as curing concrete when the predecessor is not a seven-day calendar. The concrete will cure while the predecessor calendar has non-work days, and therefore, may be cured before SureTrak s allotted date.

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