Introduction
Primavera P6 EPPM Navigation
Creating a Schedule in P6 EPPM
Resource Management in P6 EPPM
Improving the Schedule
Recording Progress in P6 EPPM

Relationships in P6 EPPM

Here you'll learn how to create relationships in EPPM and the four different relationship types - Finish to Start, Finish to Finish, Start to Finish, and Start to Start. You'll also be shown how to use network logic diagrams and how lags work.

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Before we get started in this lesson, go ahead and open the project shown here so you can follow along. Hello again. In this lesson, we're going to look at relationships within P6 Web. What we'll go through is creating the relationships, the four different relationship types.

We'll take a look at the network logic diagram and also see how lag can work. So Primavera supports four different relationship types, Finish to Start, which is the default and most commonly used. It's when one activity finishes then another one must start. A Finish to Start relationship, two activities must begin at the same time, Finish to Finish, two activities must finish at the same time, and the very rarely used Start to Finish where the start of one activity drives the finish of another.

And as it says there, it really isn't commonly used. So just a few pictorial examples, Finish to Start. Design building must be finished before the review and approve designs can start. The acronym there for FS, Finish to Start is what you'll see in the interface. Here's an example of a Start to Start, often use with milestones. So when the design building addition work is due to start, that's when the start WBS milestone comes into play as well.

Finish to Finish, concrete second floor and structure complete milestone must finish at the same time. Quite often Finish to Finish mile...

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