Much easier to work with. This activity of putting in your tasks and assigning resources can be time-consuming, but it has to be done. Also, if you want to make your life easier when it. You can actually enter them any way you want and link them up, but trust me, your Gantt chart will be almost impossible to follow. Linking Tasks Almost all tasks in a project are interrelated in one way or another.
Some tasks have to complete before others begin, some can overlap etc.
MS Project refers to this as linking tasks. Linking tasks assigns . Tasks can be linked in one of four methods. Any given task can have one or more predecessors. This means that if Task 3 needs both Task 1 and Task 2 to be completed before it can start, it would have both tasks as predecessor tasks.