Project Time Management

Project Time Management

1. 1) Plan Schedule Management

   • Definition
     • The process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule.
   • Inputs
     • Project Management Plan
     • Project Charter
     • Enterprise environmental factors
     • Organizational Process Assets
   • Tools and techniques
     • Expert judgement
     • Analytical Technique
     • Meetings
   • Outputs
     • Schedule Management Plan

2. 2) Define Activities

   • Definition
     • The process of identifying and documenting the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables.
   • Inputs
     • Schedule Management plan
     • Scope Baseline
     • Enterprise environmental factors
     • Organizational Process Assets
   • Tools and techniques
     • Decomposition
     • Rolling wave planning
     • Expert judgement
   • Outputs
     • Activity list
       • Is a comprehensive list that includes all schedule activities required on the project.
     • Activity attributes
     • Milestone list
       • Is a significant point or event in a project.

3. 3) Sequence Activities

   • Definition
     • The process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities.
   • Inputs
     • Schedule Management Plan
     • Activity list
     • Activity attributes
       • May describe a necessary sequence of events or defined predecessor or successor relationships.
     • Milestones list
     • Project scope statement
     • Enterprise environmental factors
     • Organizational Process assets
   • Tools and techniques
     • PDM
     • Dependency demostration
     • Leads and lags
   • Outputs
     • Project schedule network diagrams
     • Project documents updates

4. 4) Estimate Activity resources

   • Definition
     • The process of estimating the type and quantities of material, human resources, equipment, or supplies required to perform each activity.
   • Inputs
     • Schedule Management Plan
     • Activity list
     • Activity attribute
     • Resource calendars
     • Risk register
     • Activity cost estimates
     • Enterprise environmental factors
   • Tools and techniques
     • Expert judgment
     • Alternatives analysis
     • Published estimating data
     • Bottom-up-estimating
   • Outputs
     • Activity resources requirements
     • Resource breakdown stucture
     • Project documents updates

5. 5) Estimate Activity durations

   • Definition
     • The process of estimating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources.
   • Inputs
     • Schedule Management Plan
     • Activity list
     • Activity attributes
     • Resource calendars
     • Activity resource requirements
     • Project scope statement
     • Risk register
     • Resource breakdown structure
     • Enterprise environmental factors
     • Organizational process assets
   • Tools and techniques
     • Expert judgement
     • Analogous estimating
     • Parametric estimating
     • Three point estimating
     • Group decision making techniques
     • Reserve analysis
   • Outputs
     • Activity duration estimates
     • Project documents update

6. 6) Develop Schedule

   • Definition
     • The process of analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements, and schedule constraints to create the project schedule model.
   • Inputs
     • Schedule management plan
     • Activity list
     • Activity attributes
     • Project schedule network diagrams
     • Activity resource requirements
     • Resource calendar
     • Activity duration estimates
     • Project scope statement
     • Risk register
     • Project staff assignment
       • Specify which resources are assigned to each activity
     • Resource breakdown structure
     • Enterprise environmental factors
     • Organizational process assets
   • Tools and techniques
     • Schedule network analysis
     • Critical path method
     • Critical chain method
     • Resource optimization techniques
     • Modeling techniques
     • Leads and lags
     • Schedule compression
     • Scheduling tool
   • Outputs
     • Schedule baseline
     • Project schedule
     • Schedule data
     • Project calendars
     • Project management plan updates
     • Project documents updates

7. 7) Control Schedule

   • Definition
     • The process of monitoring the status of project activities to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline to achieve the plan.
   • Inputs
     • Project management plan
     • Project schedule
     • Work performance data
     • Project calendars
     • Schedule data
     • Organizational process assets
   • Tools and techniques
     • Performance reviews
     • Project management software
     • Resource optimization techniques
     • Modeling techniques
     • Leads and lags
     • Schedule compression
     • Scheduling tool
   • Outputs
     • Work performance information
     • Schedule forecasts
     • Change requests
     • Project management plan updates
     • Project documents updates
     • Organizational process assets update

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