Project Schedule Management

Project Schedule Management

1. Plan Schedule Management

   • Project charter, project management plan, organizational process assets, environmental factors
   • Expert judgement, data analysis & meetings.
   • Schedule management plan
   • Establishing the policies, procedures & documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing & controlling project schedule.

2. Define activities

   • Identifying & documenting specific actions to be performed to produce project deliverables
     • project management plan, organizational process assets, environmental factors
     • expert judgement, decomposition, rolling wave planning, meetings
     • activity list, activity attributes, milestone list, change requests, updates

3. Sequence activities

   • identifyng & documenting relationships among project activities
     • Project management plan, project documents, environmental factors, process assets
     • Predence diagramming method, leads and lags, dependency determination and integration, project management information system
     • Project schedule network diagrams & updates

4. Estimate activity durations

   • estimating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources
     • Project management plan, environmental factors, project documents, process assets
     • Expert judgement, meetings, data analysis, decision making, bottom-up estimating...
     • duration estimates, basis of estimates & updates

5. Develop Schedule

   • Analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements & schedule constraints to create the project schedule model for project execution & monitoring & controlling
     • Project management plan, agagreements, project documents, environmental factors...
     • Schedule network analysis, data analysis, leads & legs, agile release planning, resource optimization ...
     • Schedule baseline, project schedule, schedule data, project calendars, change requests & updates

6. Control Schedule

   • monitoring the status of the project to update the project schedule & manage changes to the schedule baseline
     • Project management plan, project documents, work performance data & process assets
     • Data analysis,critical path method, leads & lags, schedule compression,resorurce optimization...
     • Work performance information, schedule forecasts, change requests & updates