Chapter 5
Breaking Down the Project Activities
In This Chapter
- Constructing the work breakdown structure
- Defining tasks and activities
- Setting milestones
- Constructing the Responsibility Assignment Matrix
- Making activity estimates
- Constructing network diagrams
This chapter continues our journey deeper into the planning recesses of project management. Along the way, we'll define tasks and activities, construct a work breakdown structure (WBS), and discuss how to estimate activity durations.
Creating the overall project plan involves many preliminary and incremental steps. This chapter will get us a little closer to the creation of a project schedule, which is one of the most important Planning process documents you'll create. Paying close attention ...
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