Let’s see what the dinner party will involve? (See illustration of work breakdown structure) It is a lot more complicated than one would think. Major tasks include setting up and running the dinner, entertainment, and silent auction, finding a dinner speaker and clean up after the dinner is over. Beneath these major tasks are subtasks broken into 16 discrete categories. Each of the subtasks will break down into repeated or “one-off” steps. The complete list of steps with milestones runs to 75 entries. (See illustration of task list). .
