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Tasks with no dependencies, part 2: Evaluate unlinked tasks

Tasks with no dependencies, part 2: Evaluate unlinked tasks

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Tasks with no dependencies, part 2: Evaluate unlinked tasks

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- [Bonnie] Hi, Bonnie Biafore here. In this tip, we'll evaluate tasks with either no predecessors or successors to see whether additional dependencies are needed to conform to scheduling best practices. So at this point in the project, I've applied the filter that we created earlier and summary tasks are turned off. So what I'm seeing is a filtered list of work tasks that are either missing predecessors or successors. In fact, to look at that, what I'm going to do is I'm going to drag the vertical divider over to the right. The Predecessor field is already in the table, but I'm going to right-click Resource Names and insert the Successors column. And you can see that with the filter applied what I'm seeing is a list of tasks that are either missing a predecessor or a successor. Now when you think about it, the first task in a project can't have a predecessor because it's the first task. So the fact that this…

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