Task Partitioning

Definition

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Task allocation and partitioning refers to the way that tasks are chosen, assigned, subdivided, and coordinated. Closely associated are issues of communication that enable these actions to occur. Concepts associated with human task allocation and partitioning: division of labour, task analysis, and workflow. [1]

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"Task partitioning refers to innovation projects that are partitioned into smaller tasks. Professor Von Hippel proposes that “problem-solving inter-dependence among tasks can be predicted in many projects and can then be managed by strategies involving (1) adjustment of the task specifications and/or (2) reduction of the barriers to problem-solving interaction across selected or all task boundaries.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_von_Hippel)