ABSTRACT
Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA) is a normative task analysis approach that is used to describe systems in terms of goals, sub-goals and operations. HTAs were constructed for the digital Mission Planning and Battlespace Management (MP/BM) component of each question during the seven questions planning process. The digital MP/BM's role in the seven questions planning process is therefore to provide planners with the information that they require to undertake each component and also with the tools required to develop the planning products and distribute them accordingly. Due to problems with the synch matrix tool, the synch matrix product took around 6 hours to complete. The process of constructing the synch matrix within digital MP/BM appeared to be unintuitive, error prone and overly time consuming. The user in this case made many errors and had to consult with various other users on how to undertake the process correctly.
