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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.

Many of the objectives addressed through projects are huge and mind boggling in their complexity. To those of us who don’t work in the construction industry, the job of building an ...

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