Lead or Lag?

Student K, with what these days can be regarded as expressively creative punctuation, appealled:

The bit about the delivery lead time(Project a)... is that the same as duration

Not the same as a task duration - see footnote 5. These are services or resources.

,,, i have forgotten the bit about where to add lags,, is there any direction that you could advise to put me on the right path of thinking,, or more so,, ccould you please let me know what button to press to add lags,, as totally forgotten

This works for all applications:

- On specifying any predecessor/successor relationship, decide how much Lead or Lag might be required.

- Work out (see Help) how the application represents that data. Sometimes it's not the same word used by the task owners. e.g. in MS Project "Lead" is a negative Lag, i.e. an overlap between tasks. In Pertmaster, the link types FS, SS, FF, FS are used to differentiate between lead and lag.

- Type in the numbers.
Pertmaster : you get a choice when you click the link tasks button, AND/OR if you double click the task name to look at Task Information : Links

Project : Fill out the relationship fields appropriately in the Task Form.

If task 99 follows task 57 with a delay, technically lag time, but "Lead Time" for the connected resource must be equated, of 3 days then you'll want something like

"57FS+3"

as the predecessor of task 99.

Note the multiplicity of ways to click throught to the same data field. That's meant to help you, but for now it's just confusing to remember them all. Grrr ...