Chapter 5 - Project time management. After reading this chapter, you will be able to: Understand the importance of project schedules and good project time management, discuss the process of planning schedule management, define activities as the basis for developing project schedules, describe how project managers use network diagrams and dependencies to assist in activity sequencing,. | Chapter 5: Project Time Management adopted from PMI’s PMBOK 2000 and Textbook : Information Technology Project Management (author : Dr. Kathy Schwalbe) Contents of time management definition: charter and scope statement sequence: mandatory dependencies, discretionary dependencies, external dependencies schedule: ADM, PDM estimation: actual time + elapsed time. An art require experience. schedule development: Gantt chart, CPM and PERT schedule control and change control: perform checks, allow contingencies, communicate with stakeholders regularly Chapter 5 Project Time Management Developing the schedule involves define the scope of the work define the activities estimate how long the activities will take define sequence the activities based on its relationships estimate associate costs with the activities. Project Time Management Processes Project time management involves the processes required to ensure timely completion of a project. 5 Processes include: Activity definition Activity sequencing planning Activity duration estimating Schedule development Schedule control control Chapter 5 Activity Definition process 4th planning phase process It involves identifying and documenting the specific activities that must be performed in order to produce the deliverables and sub-deliverables identified in the WBS. Inputs to Activity Definition process WBS The primary input to Activity Definition. It is scope definition tool that organizes the work and provides a basis for project estimates. Scope statement must be considered explicitly during Activity Definition. Project justification and objectives are especially important. Historical information activities required on similar projects should be considered in defining project activities. Constraints Factors that limit the team’s options Assumptions factors that, for planning purposes, will be considered to be true, real, or certain. Expert judgment guided by historical information should be used whenever . | Chapter 5: Project Time Management adopted from PMI’s PMBOK 2000 and Textbook : Information Technology Project Management (author : Dr. Kathy Schwalbe) Contents of time management definition: charter and scope statement sequence: mandatory dependencies, discretionary dependencies, external dependencies schedule: ADM, PDM estimation: actual time + elapsed time. An art require experience. schedule development: Gantt chart, CPM and PERT schedule control and change control: perform checks, allow contingencies, communicate with stakeholders regularly Chapter 5 Project Time Management Developing the schedule involves define the scope of the work define the activities estimate how long the activities will take define sequence the activities based on its relationships estimate associate costs with the activities. Project Time Management Processes Project time management involves the processes required to ensure timely completion of a project. 5 Processes include: Activity definition .
