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List tasks

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List tasks

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- Step two, list the tasks. This is the first part of your planning and it's very important. If you forget any tasks, and you easily can if it's a project you've never done before, what will happen is that your project will cost more than you thought, and it'll take longer than you thought. So very important to get a list of all the tasks. How do you do this? Well, there's a three stage approach. The first thing is to get you team together, if you've got a team, and brainstorm, at random, a list of all the tasks that might be involved in your project. Secondly, structure those tasks into a work breakdown structure. Which is really a tree diagram of tasks. Put them into categories that will help you then fill in any blanks and spot any tasks that you've forgotten. And then finally the third step, is to take that work breakdown structure and show it to somebody who's done a similar project before. If you've got a resident expert or anybody you can talk to or if you got any records of…

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