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My background is primarily in software development and like most modern forms of work it's very much a project-driven field. Software developers are notorious for always delivering their projects late and over budget. Why? Because project managers don't fully scope out all of the tasks that must be done, and then they assign arbitrary times to their list of vague overly broad parts of the project.

I use two techniques to solve these problems: I use a mind map to identify all of the tasks and then a project chart (Gantt chart) to assign how long each task will take.