Decomposing tasks gives open-ended tasks structure, so it can allow people to begin or complete tasks they might not otherwise be able to.

Benefits of Decomposing Tasks: Structuring Tasks

Context can help people come up with solutions and make connections.

Benefits of Decomposing Tasks: Contextualizing Tasks

Short, concrete tasks can provide built-in quality checks and can help identify when course-correction is needed.

Benefits of Decomposing Tasks: Quality Checks

1. Structures tasks
2. Contextualizes tasks
3. Quality checks

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The process of breaking large tasks down into microtasks such that each microtask contributes towards the overall goal.

Task Decomposition Definition

Teevan, J., Iqbal, S. T., Cai, C. J., Bigham, J. P., Bernstein, M. S., &amp; Gerber, E. M. (2016). Productivity Decomposed: Getting Big Things Done with Little Microtasks. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2856480 

Productivity Decomposed: Getting Big Things Done with Little Microtasks

Benefits of Decomposing Tasks

1. Taxonomy creation
2. Itinerary planning
3. Writing

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