The completion of task A cannot be achieved until task B is completed.
I can therefore say that task A is in a group of tasks whose completion is suspended 'pending' the completion of task B. I can classify them as 'Pending'
But I want an adjective for the group of tasks that task B belongs to. A group of tasks, the completion of which allows other tasks to be addressed.
Pended? Pendant? – just can't pin down a word that works for this!
Any ideas please!
Best Answer
Prerequisite springs to mind.
It would be immediately intelligible to anyone who has attended an American university or played Dungeons and Dragons.
It can be deployed as either an adjective or a noun.
Its upstream and downstream scopes can be expressed economically (T’s prerequisites are S1 and S2, S1 is prerequisite to T).