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Project management is a highly behavioral field. The tasks are planned by people and executed by other people. Usually the tasks require a team effort and scheduling assumes a team harmony during the execution of the project. The tasks are also highly interdependent. They are progressing as long as other tasks are either completed or progressing at a certain rate. Different objectives within a project are common and it is hard to have a congruence of all the parties involved in what they expect from the execution (or not) of a project. In addition, external relations affect the planning and execution of projects, as a result of power dynamics and conflicts of interests.
The concepts of the described system and its features have been patented by the U.S. Patent No. 5,016,170 of May 14, 1991, to Prof. Spiro N. Pollalis and Mr. Yasuo Ueda. The awarded patent is entitled Task Management.
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Frequently the distinction between pure and composite tasks depends on the employed level of abstraction, since what may appear as a pure task at a certain level of analysis, can often be decomposed into a number of subordinate pure tasks at a finer level of detail.
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Pollalis, S.N. (1993). Introduction. In: Computer-Aided Project Management. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-20191-5_1
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