Article / Updated 10-30-2020
To help you develop a more realistic estimate of how long your project will take, you need an organized approach that clarifies how you plan to perform your project’s activities, what schedules are possible, and how you’ll meet deadlines that initially appear unrealistic. To determine the amount of time you, as the project manager, need for any project, you have to determine the following two pieces of information:
Sequence: The order in which you perform the activities
Duration: How long each individual activity takes
For example, suppose you have a project consisting of 10 activities, each of which takes one week to complete.