“So, if I am looking for a match, to match the Time Span of the project with the Time Span of the team member, I get to decide the Time Span of the project?” Brent asked.

“It’s not that you get to decide. It’s that, as a manager, you have discretionary judgment to determine the Time Span of the project. You will rely on your judgment, based on your experience, based on the target completion time specified by the customer, based on your understanding of risk elements, failure elements, prototyping, testing, contingencies, availability of talent, availability of resources, priority of this project among other projects. It’s not that you get to decide. Part of your role, as a manager, is to determine the Time Span of the project, using your discretionary judgment.”