Process
- Plan Schedule Management
- Define Activity
- Sequence Activity
- Estimate Activity Resource
- Estimate Activity Duration
- Develop Schedule
- Control Schedule
Plan Schedule Management
The process of establishing the policies, procedures and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing and controlling the project schedule.
Schedule Management Plan
- Project Schedule Model Development
- Level of Accuracy
- Unit of Measure
- Organization Procedure Links
- Project Schedule Model Maintenance
- Control Thresholds
- Rules of performance measurement
- Reporting Formats
- Process Description
Inputs
- Project Management Plan
- Project Charter
- Enterprise Environmental Factors
- Organizational Process Assets
Techniques
- Expert Judgment
- Analytical Technique
- Meetings
Outputs
- Schedule Management Plan
Define Activity
The process of identifying and documenting the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables
The Create WBS process identifies the deliverables at the lowest level in the WBS- the work package. Work package are typically decomposed into smaller components called activities that represent the work effort required to complete the work package.
Input
- Schedule Management Plan
- Scope Base Line
- Enterprise Environmental Factor
- Organizational Process Assets
Techniques
- Decomposition
- Rolling wave planing – an iterative planning technique
- Expert judgment
Outputs
- Activity List
- Activity Attribute
- Milestone List
Sequence Activity
The process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities.
Inputs
- Schedule Management Plan
- Activity List
- Activity Attribites
- Milestone List
- Project Scope Statement
- Enterprise environmental factors
- Organizational Process Asset
Techniques
- Precedence diagramming method (PDM)
- Dependency Determination
- Leads and Lags
Outputs
- Project Schedule Network Diagram
- Project Document Updates
Estimate Activity Resource
The Process of Estimating the type and quantities of material, human resources, equipment or supplies required to perform each activity.
Inputs
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Techniques
Outputs
Estimate Activity Duration
The process of estimating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources.
Develop Schedule
The process of analyzing activities sequences, durations, resource requirements, and schedule constraints to create the project schedule model.
Control Schedule
The process of monitoring the status of project activities to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline to achieve the plan.
Crashing
Fast Tracking