External Task

An external task is a task that a project or process needs, but that is not under its authority or budget. In other words, the task is beyond the “jurisdiction” of a process or project. An example is where your government must announce an election date. This date is important for merchandise that you want to sell during the election. The task is in your project plan, but you have no control over it. To you it is an external task. In orgamatics we use classification or C-Keys to classify the activity of Org. This helps us to design a project and process construct for utmost efficiency and effectiveness. We use the C-Key, “eT” to classify an external task.