Creating a Task List

TaskTasks 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

TaskEach 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 DurationTask 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 Duration8/80 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 taskIt 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 PlanningTop- Down Planning from general to specific

Bottom– Up Planning from specific to general

Linking tasksSequence: 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 tasksFinish-to- start FS

Start- to- start SS

Finish-to- finish FF

Start-to- finish SF

Documenting taskYou can record additional information about

task in a note

There are three types of note : task notes, resource notes and assignment notes