I can not count the number of MS Project plans I have created. Some seem to go on for hundreds and hundreds of tasks and some seem to get the job done in less than 50.
I’ve realized, though, that many times people just want the comfort of knowing that a file exists. Furthermore, the people that want that comfort are inevitably the people that end up deviating from the plan or making changes.
Project Management, without being too exhaustive here, isn’t the ability to just build a list of all the tasks that need to get done; it is the ability to know the ripple effects of any changes to your plan, it is the ability to know when to be a little more forgiving and when to be more strict, it is the ability to know when your project is in jeopardy, it is the ability to know how to change your project around completely and still hit deadline and budget, it is the ability to know where you can give and where you must take.
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