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About Tasks

Tasks constitute the work steps of your project. During the project planning process, you define the tasks that you need to complete in order to accomplish your project's objectives. In Open Workbench, project tasks are organized according to a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). The default WBS for Open Workbench includes the following default hierarchical levels:

Note: You can change the labels used to identify your WBS levels.

Phases are the major steps required to achieve the project's goal. Most well defined projects have multiple phases with specific objectives. Within each phase there are any number of activities leading to the completion of the phase's objectives. You can further divide each activity into tasks—the smallest identifiable project component—and milestones, which mark significant events or dates used to measure a project's progress.

The number of tasks you can add to a project or a WBS is limited only by the memory and disk space on your computer.