The next task is to assign times for completion of each discrete task. This is where judgment enters in and where the person who has run a similar project has an advantage. Some tasks seem easy but are quite difficult to complete and vice versa. Only an experienced fundraiser and dinner planner would know how easy it might be to get the right 200 people to show up and how willing local businesses would be to donate items for a silent auction. Only an experienced person would know who is not talking to whom and.