Project Management Tasks ...

Via Eli Robillard's World: Project Management and Task Switching

Discussion of project task estimation and management. Include safety factor into project tasks or as single project contingency buffer to consume ? ...

... "My methodology is to scope the milestone by reviewing both the planned features for M3 and the features we agreed to drop from earlier releases, identify priorities, identify available resources, break the work down into tasks, and the order the tasks according to priorities and dependencies. I sent the task list to our Senior PM with estimated durations, who thought the estimates were too tight. ... " ...