Plan Schedule Management
Establish procedures for planning, developing, managing, executing and controlling the schedule.
What is Plan Schedule Management?
Identify actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables. Breakdown work packages to activities.
What is Define Activities?
Estimating material, human resources, equipment or supplies
What is Estimate Activity Resources?
An iterative process that determines planned start date and end date for project activities.
What is Develop Schedule?
Monitors status of project schedule.
What is Control Schedule?
The output for Plan Schedule Management.
What is the Schedule Management Plan?
The three outputs for Define Activities.
What are the Activity List, the Activity Attributes, and the Milestone List?
The outputs for Estimate Activity Resources.
What are Activity Resource Requirements and Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS)?
Two of the outputs for Develop Schedule.
What is Schedule Baseline, Project Schedule, Schedule Data, and Project Calendar?
The outputs for Control Schedule.
What are Change Requests, Work Performance Information (WPI), Project Management Plan Updates (baselines), and Project Document Updates?
The tools and techniques for Plan Schedule Management.
What are analytical techniques, expert judgement, and meetings?
The method that includes all four activity relationships and is used in the Critical Path Method.
What is the Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)?
A technique used in Estimating Activity Resources. The work is decomposed to more detail and estimates are prepared for detailed pieces by team.
What is Bottom-Up Estimating?
Doing activities in parallel; is high risk
What is Fast Tracking?
Rate at which deliverables are produced?
What is Velocity?
Two of the analytical techniques used in Plan Schedule Management.
What are rolling wave planning, leads and lags, alternatives analysis, scheduling methodology, estimating approaches, and scheduling tools?
A form of progressive elaboration. Near term work planned in greater detail.
What is Rolling Wave Planning?
A technique used for Estimate Activity Durations using actual duration of previous, similar activity as the basis for estimating the duration of a future activity. It is a type of expert judgement.
What is Analogous (Top-Down) Estimating?
The longest path in the network diagram and includes the minimum project duration.
What is the Critical Path?
The inputs for Control Schedule.
What are the Project Management Plan (Schedule Baseline and Schedule Management Plan); Project Schedule; and Work Performance Data (WPD)?
The project schedule model development and how schedule contingencies will be reported and assessed.
What is established in the Project Management Plan?
The most common activity relationship.
What is Finish-to-Start?
Using an algorithm to calculate (based on historical data). e.g., time to lay floor tiles = time to lay a tile x number of tiles
What is Parametric Estimating?
Places buffers on any schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties; as late as possible scheduling.
What is the Critical Chain Method?
Resource Leveling and Resource Smoothing.
What are Resource Optimization Techniques?