Communication
A perfectly crafted task list is useless if you don't communicate it. Continuing with
the above example, we need to communicate with the material supplier so that we
can schedule other tasks, and we may need to communicate with our friend so they
know what they are supposed to do and when. We may also need to communicate
with our neighbors so that they are aware of our building work. Communication
naturally involves the review activity, because while talking to our friend we
can adjust our task list if they can't make it on a certain day, or while informing
the neighbors of our plans additional tasks??”such as obtaining planning
permission??”may become apparent.
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Exercising task management and communication provides us with enough to
manage most projects, without a Gantt chart in sight!
Project Management for Software
Development
We have seen that effective project management consists of managing tasks and
maintaining communication. We need to apply this fundamental approach to
software development as well. While there are additional considerations, as there
are with any other special field, it is the core capabilities of determining what needs
to be done and communicating with all interested parties (i.
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