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Deciding the level of granularity

Deciding the level of granularity

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Deciding the level of granularity

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- Want to mention the concept known as granularity, the degree to which the tasks are broken down. I've already mentioned it briefly in the context of clarifying your plan when you have tasks overlapping. The right level of detail is particularly important to consider if one task is larger than the rest. Also, if you have too many tasks, I would say more than 30 in your plan, then you should use a sub Gantt. This is just a Gantt chart on a separate Excel sheet which shows the detail of the tasks within the one larger task. So you can have a nice clear overview plan. You know the estimates are correct because you have detailed sub Gantts behind them. And when you get to the implementation of those tasks, you can monitor progress in detail by looking at the sub Gantt during each high-level task. It's also good to double-check the connections between tasks as you go. In theory, this is not needed because your network…

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