Hi, this is me Perri…
in a project in support I have seen the following milestones configuration:
The 2 milestones are linked by a start to start linkage and the finish to start linkage is used only for the next activities.
If I were to setup these 4 Merlin project lines, I would have connected the milestones by a finish to start linkage as well.
I am wondering thought whether this is a better way… Milestones have no work or duration settings, so it does not make any difference whether you connect them by start to start or finish to start. So you could do either way, right?
From what I can tell, this configuration makes easier to read such a project chunk. Here is how it would look like in a finish to start linkage:
But how would you do it?
IMO, I don’t think its correct to say that linking those milestones either way is the same thing.
A start – start link between the milestones would suggest to me (at least on first glance) that there is scope for the 2 corresponding phases to start in parallel.
A finish – start link between the 2 milestones reflects the true picture that phase 2 can only start after phase 1 has been completed.
The former will not result in incorrect estimates with the end dates, but I think its just wrong to depict 2 milestones with a start-start relationship when they are really not.