Planning and Deadlines
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1.1 PLANNING AND DEADLINES Purpose of planning For an information technology project to go smoothly, it must be planned well. Without such planning the project might not be completed in the time available or it might be over budget. To be able to plan a project successfully, it is necessary to break it down into a series of smaller tasks and determine the order of which these smaller tasks need to be done. The time and resources needed for each of these smaller tasks also need to be estimated. The tasks then need to be divided among the other team members. Deadlines A deadline is a date set by the senior management of a company, by which the project should be completed or reach a certain predetermined milestone. The milestones or mileposts mark the end of logical stages in the project, and their main purpose is to establish whether the project is on...

