The activities that Project Managers arrange in their project schedules have various durations, of course. If activities have durations of less than a day, the scheduling of them is called micro-scheduling. Some distinct activities may be small and simply take less than a day. If a project is exceptionally short, say several weeks, one may expect that some activities will be broken down into durations of less than one day. In once instance I had a long-term project but the deadline was critical, so towards the end I broke activities down into less than one day of duration and had multiple status updates per day so that if something got even a few hours behind I had the opportunity to make a correction while it was still possible to get the project back on track.
Micro-Scheduling
Posted on January 25, 2010 by tapuniversity
Posted in: PMP Exam, Project Management
sai
January 26, 2010
Is it not micro-managing? I prefer to group tasks (less than < 1 day) to assign one resource to it. This will ensure the resource has the flexiblity to switch the tasks and complete it on time.
Just wondering how you managed to get multiple status updates per day ;-|