Discussions on

Project
Management
- N Senthil Kumar
Table of Contents
Discussion on Question -1 of Assignment
Discussion about schedule and schedule
control
Bonus Question - 1
What is PDM ??
How do we indicate S-S or F-F relations in
Arrow diagram method??


Is it easy to analyze a project with
thousands of activities??
How far the person who defines the
activities knows about it??
Question - 1


How do we proceed ??
How do you determine the cost of the
project ??
What is required to prepare a network
diagram ??
At the start of any project what data will
you have ??
What data can possibly be given to you
by your client ??

Steps
Identify the activities involved
How do you identify activities ?? (Through WBS
levels)
Identify the time required to perform
individual activities
Determine the relations between diagrams
and draw the network diagram
Identify the resource requirements
Assign resources to the activities
Why is resource allocation required ??
General discussion on
schedule


Schedule control tools
Base line analysis
Changing daily Cut off date
Project spotlight
Fixing constraints
Forecasting, Reforecasting, Weekly
meetings
Trace logic
Broken line analysis (Delay analysis)
General Activities

Trace Logic
Project Spot light

Resources allocation
Other points to discuss
How is crashing done in Primavera ??
Significance of WBS in calculating
progress, Earned value and Planned
value concepts
How can resource be leveled ??

THANK YOU
QUERIES??