project man
Name two ways to identify the tasks that need to be accomplished over the course of a project
"The definition of tasks and their sequence is referred to as the Work Breakdown Structure" (WBS) (Systems Implementation and Training, n.d., p. 146). There is a particular skill in breaking down project tasks into the right-sized chunks. For example, the tasks of "building the customer database" or "implementing social media" would be too big a task to enter into the tracking system so they has to be broken down into smaller components that you can identify, assign people to, and track progress on.
Some of the tips for identifying tasks that I found include the following: (Schindler, 2013)
- Define tasks in one or two sentences.
- Look at task dependencies. What steps are missing?
- Ask experienced team members to identify the steps, and trust their answers.
- Identify tasks by the time you expect them to take.
- Identify tasks by their completion tests.