7. Shorten easiest tasks. The logic here is that the learning curve for a project activity can make it easier to adjust an activity’s duration downward. From a cost and budgeting perspective, we saw in Chapter 8 that learning curve methodology does result in lower costs for project activities. Duration estimates for easiest tasks can be overly inflated and can reasonably be lowered without having an adverse impact on the project team’s ability to accomplish the task in the shortened time span.