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Primavera - Relationship between activity

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Jithin Kambhikanam
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Hello Everyone,

Hope everyone is in good health. 

A doubt. I have received comments on a schedule,

  • The use of Finish-start relationship is prefered (FS). Avoid as much possibe use of Finish-Finish (FF) plus lags and start -start (SS) plus lags relationship between activities.
  • FF relationship do not provide visiblity and clarity regarding schedule logics and drivers fr key activity.

Is the above statement right ?

Moreover in my schedule I have no open end activity, each activity will either have FF or FS or SS relationship with a lag. So would ac activity be considred "Opend End" if it the predecedosr/sucessor rlationship is having only FF or SS ?

Is only FS relation is considred as Closed end ?

 

Stay safe.

Thanks 

Jithin

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Rafael Davila
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I suggest creating filters for dangling activities.

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Best Regards, Rafael

Rafael Davila
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Rafael Davila
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The risks of splitting activities that shall be executed continuously can be far more dangerous than pretending concurrent logic does not exists. This is specially true if your model is to apply resource constraints, it might spread apart the segments of an activity that shall be continuous. In such case use of SS(+lag) in combination to FF(+lag) relationships will make a better model.

Best Regards, Rafael

Zoltan Palffy
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technically a activity withonly a SS relationship would be open ended because you are only tying the start of it to something not the finsh of it.

 so the solution would be make it a compound relationship and have both a SS and a FF to the same successor. 

if you give me your email I can send you a pdf on why to use the compund relationsh and what can happen if you only use a SS relationship