Integrated Project Management

Task Duration Basics

Task leaders provide the raw data for risk analysis. They are chosen for a project because they have knowledge and experience that they can use when doing the necessary task work to complete a project. Their knowledge and experience also gives them a good foundation for speaking with other experienced people about task duration. All of these task leaders do not necessarily have the same experiences, but they each have done very similar things. Carpenters have built frames for other houses, engineers have calculated the air flow through other ducts, programmers have written lines of code for other similar information systems projects, technical writers have written published papers describing similar products, and so on.