The Planning Game
A few disconnected timescale estimates are no use to anyone. You have to join them up and convert them into something useful: a project plan with which you can manage the development schedule. Based on their individual timescale estimates, tasks are assembled on a timeline and allotted to developers. Dependencies between tasks are identified and factored in to the plan (obviously, dependent tasks cannot start before their dependencies have completed). The final result is a pictorial chart with time running along the horizontal axis and tasks positioned concurrently on it, looking something like Figure 21-1 (a variant of the classic Gantt chart).
Figure 21-1. A Gantt chart
Project planning is about allocating tasks to developers ...
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