What is task management
"A hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work to be carried out by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables."
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Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK 5)
Task management is a process where one identifies, monitors and progresses the work that needs to be done during the day. In terms of project management, task management is how workflow is efficiently organized. It’s task-oriented, detailed and part of the larger scheduling of a project.
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Tools for task management
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Work Breakdown Structure [WBS]
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RACI Chart (refer back to people managment)
Work Breakdown Structure
The WBS is ideally going to your number one go-to task management tool. WBS is also going to very helpful when it come to time management.
This video here basically sums up what WBS is.
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Identify your project objectives
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Identify major deliverables
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Breakdown major deliverables into smaller components
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The smallest components are eventually work packages
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Here is an example how you can develop a WBS for a birthday party. As you can see the WBS was developed based on components.
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The project objectives here is to have a birthday party.
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The major deliverables are components you see at level 1
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The work packages are up to level 3 for food and setup while up to level 2 for planning, logistics and clean up.
According to the video, it will be good if you and your team come together with sticky notes to identify the deliverables, components and work packages after properly identifying what your project objectives are.
Project CASA used miro.com to come up with our WBS
Now that you understand more about task management and how to use the WBS. Lets move on to the experiences from Project CASA here