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Establish activity relationships

Establish activity relationships

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Establish activity relationships

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- A precedence network, or a precedence diagram, shows each of our activities as a node connected by a logic link line that shows the dependencies between those activities. Like I said, we need to run through this by hand, because most of the scheduling software used today uses the same concept of a precedence network, and it requires you to enter all of the same information in order to really leverage the features and generate a working useful schedule. So let's get started. Let's use the table that we generated in the last segment to draw a simple diagram that represents the relationships we determine to exist between the activities. Let's start with the items we identified in our table as having no predecessors. These are the items we can start at the beginning of the job, and that was our site fence and our surveying activities. Our table shows these activities as predecessors to the clearing activities, so let's go ahead and put that node in and link to that. Clearing was a…

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