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The first step to good teamwork in project management depends on great task design. Tasks should provide logical and touchable deliverables, be short compared to the overall project, sized for visibility, and allow control of risks.
Tasks also need to make sense. The clearer the task deliverable, the clearer the responsibility of the person performing the task. And the better the match between skills, assigned resources and tasks, the more predictable the project.
Eventually, task design reaches a natural limit when tasks go from motivational to micromanagement. At this point, the return on additional investment in the project plan is negative. It's time to set the plan prior to that point, set the baseline, and start executing the plan and building the team that will complete the project.
Project networks are about defining not so much the boxes, but their edges and the arrows between them.
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