Cap 6. Project Time Management

Cap 6. Project Time Management

1. 1. Plan schedule management

   • Inputs
     • P.M plan
       • Scope
     • Project charter
     • Organizational process assets
     • Enterprise environmental factors
   • Tools & techniques
     • Expert judgement
     • Analytical techniques
       • May involve choosing strategic options to estimate and schedule the project such as: scheduling methodology, scheduling tools and techniques, estimating approaches, formats, and project management software.
     • Meetings
   • Outputs
     • Schedule management plan
   • Process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule

2. 2. Design activites

   • 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 & techniques
     • Decompostition
     • Rolling wave planning
       • Iterative planning technique in which the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail, while the work in the future is planned at a higher level
     • Expert judgement
   • Outputs
     • Activity list
     • Activity outputs
     • Milestone list

3. 3. Sequence activites

   • Inputs
     • Schedule planning
     • Activity list
     • Act. artributes
     • Milestone list.
     • Proj. Scope statement
   • Tools & techniques
     • PDM
     • Dependency determination
     • Leads and lags
   • Outputs
     • Project schedule network diagrams
     • Project documents updates
   • Process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities

4. 4. Estimate activity resources

   • 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 atributes
     • Risk register
     • Act. cost estimates
     • Enterprise env. factors
     • Org. process assets
   • Tools & techniques
     • Expert judgement
     • Alternative analysis
     • Published, estimated data
     • Bottom up estimating
     • P.M software
   • Outputs
     • Activity recourse
     • Recourse breakdown structure
     • Project doc. updates

5. 5. Estimate activity durations

   • Process of estimating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources.
   • Inputs
     • Schedule management plan; Activity list; Activity attributes; Activity resource requirements; Resource calendars; Project scope statement; Risk register; Resource breakdown structure; Enterprise environmental factors; Organizational process assets
   • Tools & techniques
     • Expert judgement, analogous estimating, parametric estimating, three point estimating, group decision-making techniques, reserve analysis
   • Outputs
     • Act. Duration estimation; Project document updates

6. 6. Develop schedule

   • 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 calendars; Activity duration estimates; Project scope statement; Risk register; Project staff assignments; Resource breakdown structure; Enterprise environmental factors ; Organizational process assets
   • Tools & 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

   • Process of monitoring the status of project activities to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline to achieve the plan
     • Inputs
       • 1 Project management plan .2 Project schedule .3 Work performance data .4 Project calendars .5 Schedule data .6 Organizational process assets
     • Tools
       • 1 Performance reviews .2 Project management software .3 Resource optimization techniques .4 Modeling techniques .5 Leads and lags .6 Schedule compression .7 Scheduling tool
     • Outputs
       • Work performance info; Forecasts, Change rquests, Project doc.