Creating a Task List

Task Tasks are the most basic building blocks of any project Task represent the work to be done to accomplish the goals of the project Task describe project work in terms of sequence, duration and resource requirements

Task Each task has a unique ID number, but it does not necessarily represent the order in which task occur By default the task start date is the same as the project start date and the one day for the duration

Task Duration Task duration is the amount of time you expect it will take to complete the task You can work with task duration on the scale of hours, days and weeks (m,h,d,w,mo) The question mark in the duration field indicates that the duration is an explicit estimate

Task Duration 8/80 rule suggests that task duration between 8 hours and 80 hours are generally sized to a manageable duration

Milestone Milestones are significant events that are either reached within the project or imposed itself It represented as task with zero duration

Summary task It is helpful to organize groups of closely related tasks that represent a major portion of the project’s work into phases For the summary task you can’t edit it’s duration, start date or other calculated value directly

Top- Down & Bottom– Up Planning Top- Down Planning from general to specific Bottom– Up Planning from specific to general

Linking tasks Sequence: is the second task must occur later than the first task Dependency: is the second task can occur only if the first task is completed Predecessor successor

Linking tasks Finish-to- start FS Start- to- start SS Finish-to- finish FF Start-to- finish SF

Documenting task You can record additional information about task in a note There are three types of note : task notes, resource notes and assignment notes