Keeping the Pressure On to Motivate: Another Reason for More Detailed Tasks
October 9, 2007 – 1:38 pmI’ve written before on the advantages to building your project plans based on shorter, more detailed tasks to get better estimates. Johanna Rothman over at the Managing Project Management blog has posted another great reason to go with smaller, more detailed tasks: keeping the pressure on.
By keeping the deadlines shorter, you avoid a lot of the impact of student syndrome- people putting things off until the last minute to get them done. Allowing people to check off tasks more often is also, in my experience, a positive motivator- the ability for them to check off items from their to-do list with me gives them a sense of accomplishment and gets them motivated to check off even more tasks.
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