Activity

1. Activity • Schedule your project • Using your project management software set the start date and the working times for your own project. Check your timetable carefully and only allocate what you are prepared to stick to. Enter any holiday times or other times when you are unable to work on the project for whatever reason.

2. Activity • Enter tasks into your schedule • Using your project management software enter as tasks the two main phases; then enter your practical objectives as subtasks of the design and development phase. Leave everything else to default at the moment.

3. Activity • Create an independent tasks table • Create an independent tasks table showing which of your tasks are dependent on the components of the previous task. Update this information in your project management software

4. Activity • Refine your project plan • Insert deign, development and feedback tasks into your project plan. Estimate and enter an estimated time for each phase and add a Leeway task to each. Don’t forget to link them as predecessors to each other. What date is your project now due to finish?

5. Activity • Plan for documentation • Decide on how you will plan to create any documentation and add it to your system

6. Activity • Refine your project plan further • Using your project management software complete the process of breaking down the tasks of your project by analysing the handover of your project and setting up the task accordingly