47 DELEGATE SUB-PLANS TO WORKSTREAM LEADERS

On large projects your plan will include hundreds of tasks, if not thousands. Having all those in one schedule document is going to make tracking really tricky. You can get round this by delegating the management of sub-plans to your workstream leaders and only having high-level milestones in your overall project schedule.

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When Claire Simpson was asked to run a project to refit a 60-foot corporate yacht, she knew she was looking at a schedule that would run to pages and pages of tasks. ‘Our company specialises in refitting yachts, and from the work that needed to be done on this one I could tell it ...

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