Time Management Checklist

Planning and Definition

Ensure project team members share a common understanding of project goals and
objectives, key parameters, implementation strategies, and major responsibilities
and document these requirements into a project charter.
Ensure development of contract strategies involving approaches to initial studies,
obtaining consultants, design drawings, contract breakdown, construction,
commissioning and subsequent client/user requirements.
Make implicit assumptions about the future so that action can be taken today
Facilitate the accomplishment of objectives (as part of an iterative process involving

planning, action, measurement, evaluation and revision).
Develop work breakdown and organization structures to define project scope, codes

and responsibilities.
Develop a Master Plan to establish the initial target schedule, (or baseline)
including milestones (key events) and a relevant cash flow. The Master Plan should
be developed using Critical Path Logic Diagram techniques.
Detailed Scheduling
Establish detailed activities for the tasks or work to be performed to complete the
project. This is structured as a network or critical path logic diagram depicting
relationships and interdependencies among the project tasks. The network or critical
path diagram identifies critical paths (based on total float calculation) and permits
consideration of project uncertainties.
Establish a detailed record of tasks or activities that must be accomplished to satisfy
the project objectives. These activities are generally formed from the skeleton of the
Master Plan.
Estimate the work content of an activity, assign resources to the activities to be
performed, assign budgeted costs, and determine the logic, relationships and

duration of each activity within the requirements of meeting the project objectives
and deadlines.
Process the schedule using project management software. Analyse the schedule and
produce reports (networks, bar charts, costs and resources, etc.) to provide by
activity, early and late start dates, critical paths and overall project duration.
Monitoring and Control
Monitor actual progress on the project and compare it against the pre-established
baselines for the project time and cost. Analyze the impact of change, and where

necessary, implement corrective action to bring the actual performance back in line
with the approved baseline Master Plan (milestones).