MBA1333 Guest Teacher: Laura B. Janusek- How to Estimate How Long a Group Project Will Take

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

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🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

How long will this take? It’s a question we have to ask about every task, big or small. One of the toughest parts of managing a team is coordinating a long-term project with some sense of timeliness. Multiple people, multiple agendas, all adding up to one result.

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0:00.0	Heyo! Welcome to the $100 MBA Show. The business podcast that delivers a daily business
0:14.8	nuggets to help you and your business every single day with our daily 10 minute
0:19.2	business lessons for the real world. I'm your host, your coach,
0:23.0	or teacher Omar is in home.
0:24.8	I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA,
0:27.6	a complete business training, and community online.
0:30.0	And today's episode is a guest teacher episode.
0:32.8	Today's guest teacher is Laura B Genesac,
0:35.2	and she'll be teaching you how to estimate how long a group project will take.
0:39.6	I absolutely love this lesson topic because it's so underserved.
0:44.8	When we're working on a project with our team, we often set these arbitrary deadlines
0:49.2	without really finding out how long it really should take. We're often worried that our team is
0:54.0	going to take longer than they should have to if we don't set a deadline. In today's
0:58.7	lesson you'll learn how to estimate, at least have an estimate of how long a project will take and then you can move forward from there.
1:05.9	It's not a deadline, but at least it gives you a gauge of how much time you should dedicate
1:11.0	towards a project.
1:12.1	Laura does a fantastic job delivering today's lesson.
1:15.1	She gives you a great strategy that gets your team involved
1:18.6	and gets them buy and gets them really feeling
1:21.7	they're part of the process. So let's get into it. Let's get
1:24.4	down to business. Today's guest teacher Laura B. Genesac is one of the founding
1:28.9	members at Modern Teacher. She's also the chief product officer there. She's spoken at numerous tech
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