CIV824M

Jerome Crockett
Project Schedule Management
5 Project Management Process Groups

10 Knowledge Areas

49 Project Management Processes

Trends and emerging practices
• Iterative scheduling with a backlog – form of rolling wave planning on
adaptive life cycle

• On-demand scheduling – typically used in Kanban system and is

based on theory of constraints and pull-based scheduling
I for SEQUENCE ACTIVITIES
• Project management plan – schedule management plan and scope
baseline
• Project documents – activity attributes, activity list, assumption log,
milestone list
• Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEFs) – Government or industry
standards, PMIS, Scheduling tools, Organization work authorization
system
• Organizational Process Assets (OPAs) – Portfolio and programs plans,
Existing formal and informal activity planning-related policies,
Templates, Lessons learnd repository
TT for SEQUENCE ACTIVITIES
• Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
• Finish to Start – common type
• Finish to Finish
• Start to Finish – rarely used
• Start to Start
• Dependency determination
• Mandatory dependencies
• Discretionary dependencies
• External dependencies
• Internal dependencies
O for SEQUENCE ACTIVITIES
• Project Scheduling Network Diagrams
• Project documents updates (but not limited to)
• Activity attributes
• Activity list
• Assumption log
• Milestone list
Project Management Information System
(PMIS)
• Scheduling software that has the capability to help plan, organize, and
adjust the sequence of the activities; insert the logical relationships
and differentiate the types of dependencies
• Primavera
• MS Project
• Asta Project
• MS Excel (templates)
Factors that affects ESTIMATING ACTIVITY
DURATION
• Law of diminishing returns
• Number of resources
• Advances in technology
• Motivation of staff
I for ESTIMATE ACTIVITY DURATIONS
• Project Management Plan
• Schedule management plan
• SCOPE BASELINE
• Project documents
• Lessons learned register
• Project team assignments
• Resource breakdown structure
• Resource breakdown
• Resource calendar
• Risk register
TT for ESTIMATE ACTIVITY DURATION
• Expert Judgment
• Analogous estimating – using historical data
• Parametric estimating – using project parameters (i.e. cost per area)
• 3-point estimating
• Bottom-up estimating – from lower level components of WBS
• Data analysis – alternative analysis and reserve analysis
• Decision making
• Meetings
Resource Optimization
• Resource leveling
• Resource smoothing
Schedule Compression
• Crashing
• Fast tracking
Agile PM
O for DEVELOP SCHEDULE
• Schedule baseline
• Project schedule
• Bar charts
• Milestone charts
• Project schedule network diagrams
TT for CONTROL SCHEDULE
• Data analysis
• Earned Value Analysis
• Performance review
• Trend analysis
• Variance analysis
• What-if scenario analysis
• Critical Path Method
• PMIS
• Resource optimization
• Schedule compression
Thank you for listening!