During planning the team listed activities and completed sequencing. They discovered a missing dependency between: • Test the product • Release to customer. The quality management plan requires testing before release. How should the project manager record this dependency?

The correct answer is Finish to Start (FS). This is the most common type of dependency, where the successor activity (Release to customer) cannot start until the predecessor activity (Test the product) is finished. The quality management plan explicitly states that testing must occur before release, directly indicating an FS relationship. Start to Start (SS) would mean "Release to customer" could start as soon as "Test the product" starts, which contradicts the requirement for testing to be completed first. Finish to Finish (FF) would mean "Release to customer" must finish at the same time "Test the product" finishes, which doesn't enforce the prerequisite. Start to Finish (SF) would mean "Release to customer" must finish before "Test the product" can start, which is illogical in this scenario.