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What has to happen before this can start?

Aerial teaching scene with water-main works crossing a road and a separate kiosk compound.

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1. Project brief

The delivery scheme

Two work packages must be ready for one handover. You are connecting their activities and checking which sequence controls completion.

Water main and independent kiosk · WMK-1

Planning · WMK-1

What has to happen before this can start?

The water main and kiosk must both be ready for handover. Build the relationships that make that possible.

Water-main and kiosk project · BL-1

Supplied Scope teaching baseline, version 1. Scenario approval supplied for learning; independent technical review pending. Scope WMK-1. Independent kiosk package completion includes installation, connection, testing and acceptance.

Calendar: Monday to Friday, no holidays. Day 0 is Wed 14 Oct 2026 start; day 8 is Fri 23 Oct close. Durations use whole working days. Only finish-to-start, zero lag and zero-duration milestones are supported.

CA-WM maps all ten bay budgets to activity P. Excavation, final system testing and kiosk costs are outside this control account.

Show a short worked example

If inspection must finish before covering a joint, link inspection to covering. Two independent deliveries do not need a dependency just because one appears first in a list.

Terms for this task

A predecessor is work that must finish before another activity can start. A milestone marks a required event, here handover, and has no duration.

On site

Two assets, one handover

Water-main works

Trace the handoffs between excavation, installation and testing. A dependency needs a physical, access or contractual basis.

Illustrative scene. Use the lesson figures and records for measurements.

Water-main installation bays

Ten bays on the same reporting basis. Select a bay to inspect its installation activity.

Bay status comes from the progress register. Local inspection is separate from final system testing.

Selected activity

Selected activity basis and records

Water main · Asset WM-01 · WBS 1.3

Ten bays, one installation crew; includes local bay inspection and rework allowance.

Saved project outputs

Baseline BL-1 remains unchanged. Saved versions below are retained; new work creates another version.

Structured-data CSV for review. It is not a native Primavera or Microsoft Project schedule.

Model limits and reference basis

One working calendar, finish-to-start zero lag. No automatic resource levelling, date constraints, progress override, baseline approval workflow or native scheduling-software export. Saved narrative is authored by you; validation checks evidence, model consistency and required fields, not the professional quality of every explanation.

GAO Schedule Assessment Guide · DOE earned value guidance · APM project controls. Methodological references, not accreditation.

Open spreadsheet for supporting calculations

Worksheet edits do not change the programme automatically. Review the production basis, then enter the affected duration explicitly.