Plan Schedule Management
This document outlines how the project schedule will be developed, managed, and monitored.
What is the Schedule Management Plan?
This process involves identifying and documenting the specific tasks required to produce the project deliverables.
What is Define Activities?
This process determines the logical order of tasks to ensure they are completed efficiently.
What is Sequence Activities?
This technique involves measuring the actual performance of the project schedule against the planned schedule to determine if corrective actions are needed.
What is schedule performance monitoring?
This technique involves using expert knowledge and judgment to estimate a task's length, often based on past experience.
What is Expert Judgment?
The process of identifying the major deliverables and breaking them down into manageable components.
What is Decomposition?
The hierarchical structure used to organize the total scope of a project into manageable sections.
What is the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)?
The visual representation used to map task dependencies and show their sequence in a project.
What is a Project Network Diagram?
This document is updated to reflect changes in the project schedule and serves as a baseline for measuring future schedule performance.
What is a schedule baseline?
This estimation technique uses past projects to predict the duration of current tasks based on similarity.
What is Analogous Estimating?
This technique uses past project data to create the schedule, often leveraging industry standards or historical information.
What is Analogous Estimating?
The detailed listing of tasks derived from the work packages in the WBS.
What is the Activity List?
A type of dependency that is contractually or legally required.
What is a Mandatory Dependency?
This type of schedule update occurs when a change is necessary, and it needs to be formally documented and communicated to all stakeholders.
What is a schedule change request?
This technique calculates task duration using optimistic, pessimistic, and most likely time estimates.
What is Three-Point Estimating?
This term describes the smallest unit of work in a project that can be scheduled, estimated, and tracked.
What is a Work Package?
These additional documents include assumptions, constraints, and descriptions of each task in the activity list.
What are Activity Attributes?
The type of dependency that reflects project manager discretion to establish the logical relationship between activities.
What is a Discretionary Dependency?
This process involves reviewing and updating the project schedule regularly to ensure that the project is on track and to address any changes.
What is schedule monitoring?
Provides estimated time to complete each activity which is crucial data for building project schedule
What is a key benefit of the Estimate Activity Duration process?
A key output of the Plan Schedule Management process that defines roles and responsibilities for managing schedule changes.
What is the Change Control Process?
A specific type of dependency that requires a deliverable from one project phase to begin work on another.
What is a Finish-to-Start Relationship?
This method uses nodes and arrows to represent activities and their dependencies.
What is the Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)?
This type of schedule update occurs when a change is necessary, and it needs to be formally documented and communicated to all stakeholders.
What is a schedule change request?
This technique involves using expert knowledge and judgment to estimate how long a task will take, often based on past experience.
What is Expert Judgment?