Project Management Lecture

Project Scheduling (2)

Ayanda Pekane

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 Project Schedule (Gantt Chart)
• Allocate Team members to activities
• Estimate Work activities
• Gantt Chart method or technique
A Gantt chart technique provides a standard time format for
displaying project schedule information by listing project
activities and their corresponding start and finish dates in
calendar format.
• Communicate progress

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 Estimation Techniques

• Analogous estimating (similar project

estimation)
• Parametric estimating (historical data
estimation)
• Delphi technique (the expert)
• Bottom up (small to big)
• PERT (most optimistic and pessimistic)

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Kloppenborg, Contemporary Project Management, 4th Edition. © 2019 Cengage. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied
or duplicated, or posted to a publicly accessible website, in whole or in part.
Develop a Gantt Chart

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 Critical Path Method (CPM)

• The first major task in developing the

project schedule is to identify the critical
path,which is “the sequence of activities
that represents the longest path through
the project, which determines the shortest
possible duration.
• Predict the total duration of the project

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Determining the Critical Path for Project X

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 Simple Example to Determine the
Critical Path

C=2 4 E=1
A=2 B=5
start 1 2 3 6 finish

D=7 5 F=2
a. How many paths are on this network diagram?
b. How long is each path?
c. Which is the critical path?
d. What is the shortest amount of time needed to complete this project?

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Program Evaluation and Review
Technique (PERT)

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PERT Formula and Example

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Gantt Chart

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 Lets get to work!

• Project Charter of your project has been

approved
• Create your high level project schedule
• Deliverables and tasks are clearly defined
• Step 1: Create a PBS for the project
• Step 2: Create a WBS
• Step 3: Create a network diagram

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Product Breakdown Structure

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Work Breakdown Structure

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Network Diagram

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End!

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