Project Task Scheduling

I just read Joel Spolshy’s page on software project task scheduling. He has some really good ideas. I like the idea of scheduling time for vacations, debugging, integration time, and scheduling some buffer time for tasks that took longer or for the tasks you didn’t know you had to do. I also like what he has to say about never letting managers tell programmers to reduce an estimate. In this article Joel also has some very convincing arguments of why you should actually create and manage a task schedule.