What is ID Task Duration Start End?

 What is ID Task Duration Start End? 

Applying bottom-up approach implies that we should start from the last date, which is January 20 and set this date as the finish date for the last task, which is “Presentation”. Then, we examine the mentioned task and we estimate a duration within which we think that the task is getting accomplished.We try to be as realistic as we can in this regard. However, you may ask how you should know that how long the task might take to get accomplished. In reality, there are different ways that help project plannerswith the time estimation process, which unfortunately most of them do not work for you and therefore we are not discussing them, here. In fact, you have to establish this version of your schedule by guessing the required time for accomplishing each task. Then, you have to refine it by consulting your supervisor, later.

Suppose that based on a rough estimation the presentation task needs you to spend 3 days in order to prepare it. Assuming the presentation day as January 22, you should have finished your presentation no later thanJanuary 21, which is exactly a day before your presentation day. This assumption sets the end date of the “Preparing Presentation” task on January 21 and therefore, the start date on January 19. However, for the time being assume that you are off at the weekends. Considering this, puts the start date of the task on January 17. 

ID Task Duration Start End

1 Preparing Problem Statement ? ? ?

2 Understanding general requirements ? ? ?

3 Meeting with my supervisor ? ? ?

4 Literature Review ? ? ?

5 Implementation ? ? ?

6 Testing ? ? ?

7 Writing Project Report ? ? ?

8 Preparing Presentation 3 days 01/17/13 01/21/13

As you can see, we have created a table including the first cut tasks that we already recognized and calculated the duration, start date, and end date for the last task. We can calculate the start and end date for each task by applying the same technique. Let us do it for “Writing Project Report” task. Suppose that this task needs 10 days to be accomplished. However, later in this chapter you will see that this task should not be considered as a short-term task, rather a continuous task that is spanning throughout the entire project. Nevertheless, for the time being we put this issue aside.

ID Task Duration Start End

1 Preparing Problem Statement ? ? ?

2 Understanding general requirements ? ? ?

3 Meeting with my supervisor ? ? ?

4 Literature Review ? ? ?

5 Implementation ? ? ?

6 Testing ? ? ?

7 Writing Project Report 10 days 01/03/13 01/16/13

8 Preparing Presentation 3 days 01/17/13 01/21/13