Welcome to the topic of mastering project management! This video lesson, ‘Estimating Task Duration,’ explains methods for gauging how long tasks will take to complete—realistically. This lesson is the ninth of sixteen in the ‘Project Planning’ video course, which describes how to plan and organize your project so it can be completed efficiently and successfully. From this lesson, viewers will learn how to use the PETR methodology to compute a duration time from estimated numbers. Additionally, this lesson describes a variety of methods for estimating various durations, including the similarity method and the Delphi technique.
