Add Lag or Lead Time Between Tasks

You can add lag or lead time between tasks.

To add lag or lead time between tasks, complete the following steps:

1. From the Vision Navigation menu, click Planning > Project Planning and click the Schedule tab.
2. On the Schedule tab, select the task where you want to add lag or lead time. A gray border displays around the selected task.
3. Either double click the task bar or right-click on the task and choose Edit Dependency.
4. In the Predecessor field, select the predecessor task.
5. In the Lag/Lead field, enter the lag or lead time for the tasks.

   You set the lag time or lead time in days.

   • Lag time — Indicates a delay between the dependent tasks where the selected relationship occurs a specified number of days later. After you enter the number of days of lag time, you select After as the Direction and then Vision creates the dependency. For example, if the Relationship is Finish to Start, you can specify a lag time of five days such that the dependent task does not start until five days after the predecessor task is finished.
   • Lead time — Indicates that the selected relationship occurs a specified number of days earlier, which may result in the tasks overlapping. After you enter the number of days of lead, you select Before as the Direction and then Vision creates the dependency. For example, if the Relationship is Start to Start, you can specify a lead time of five days and select Before as the direction. This causes the dependent task to start five days before the predecessor task starts.
6. Set the direction of the Lag/Lead time.
   • For a lag value, select Forward.
   • For a lead value, select Backward.
7. Click OK.