
222 Applying Analytics: A Practical Introduction
10.3.3 Determine the Tasks to Achieve the Goal
Tasks, also known as activities, are the building blocks from which projects
are assembled. A single task can be worked by one or more people, depending
on the nature of the task. The project lead tracks the completion of tasks to
monitor the progress of the project. For this reason, tasks vary in size from
project to project; if I were building a project plan for a five-year-long project
involving hundreds of people, the tasks in that project plan would be larger
units of work than if I were building a project plan for a month-long project
involving two