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Lecture: Project Time Management
Agenda
• Activities
• Sequencing Activities
• Estimating Activity Resources & Durations
• Developing the Schedule
• Gantt Charts
• Critical Path Method
• Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
• Controlling the Schedule
• Sequencing activities
• identifying and documenting the relationships between project activities.
• Discretionary dependencies
• External dependencies
• relationships between project and non-project activities.
• The nature of the project and the organization will affect resource
estimating
Reference: https://www.projectmanager.com/blog/resource-breakdown-structure-rbs
Estimation of Activity Resources
• Activity Duration
• includes the actual amount of time worked on an activity plus elapsed time
E: ???
O: three weeks
P: five weeks
M: four weeks
• The goal: create a realistic project schedule that provides a basis for
monitoring project progress for the time dimension of the project
• Measurable
• Assignable
• Realistic
• Time-framed
• early finish date for an activity: the earliest possible time an activity can finish
based on the project network logic
• late finish date for an activity: the latest possible time an activity can be
completed without delaying the project finish date.