| If you look at this chart you can see how we plan our projects. This one is a survey we’re working on this year about where people liked to shop. OK? Well, we always start by having a team meeting. That's in the first column called tasks. So, in this team meeting we decide what we need to do, who's going to do it and err ....... when it’s got to be ready. Right? So you can see here in the second column, we’ve got the start date of the project. That’s the 23rd January. That's the same day we have the team meeting. If you look down the tasks column you can see that the first thing we have to do is write a draft questionnaire. You know, like an outline of the questions we want to ask. Then we have to check the questionnaire to make sure the questions are right. If you look at the lines in column three, you can see the dates when we have to complete important tasks in the project. These are what we call milestones in the project. For example, when we’ve checked the questionnaire on the 25th April, we'll have reached a milestone, and when we've completed the survey on the 30th June, we'll have reached another milestone. On the 15th August, when we finish entering the data on the database, when we finish entering the data on the database, we'll have finished the first phase of the project. The second phase of the project involves writing the report. We'll be doing that between 15th August and the 15th September. And that’s the deadline for the project to be handed to the client. |
