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Work Breakdown
From Huge Job to Manageable Tasks
Key Topics Covered in This Chapter
- Using work breakdown structure to subdivide complex tasks into many smaller tasks
- Estimating time and resource requirements for each task
- Fitting people to tasks
ONCE YOU HAVE completed all the housekeeping processes and set up a budget for your project, you are ready to move into the first area of technique, which aims to decompose a large job into a set of manageable tasks.
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