Chapter 06: Schedule Management Flashcards
Knowledge Area Overview
This knowledge area is utilized to find the answer to when the project and its activities within will be completed.
Schulede Management
Processes Overview
This pocess determines the strategy and methodologies for how to create and manage the project’s schedule.
6.1: Plan Schedule Management
Processes Overview
This process identifies which activities are required in order to complete the project work.
6.2: Define Activities
Processes Overview
This process determines the relationships and dependencies between tasks.
6.3: Sequence Activities
Processes Overview
This process determines who long it takes to complete each work activity.
6.4: Estimate Activity Durations
Processes Overview
This process uses the duration estimates and activity information to create the project schedule.
6.5: Develop Schedule
Processes Overview
This process monitors the project’s schedule performance and manages any potential changes to the schedule baseline.
6.6: Control Schedule
The majority of the Schedule Management processes belong under the … process group, with the exception of the … process that is for monitoring/controlling.
planning
Control Schedule
Agile/Adaptive Environments
For project following an agile approach, think “iterative scheduling with a backlog and following a cadence of repeated short cycles called … This approach is known as …
sprints
rolling wave planning
Hont: rolling wave planning is a form of progressive elaboration.
Agile/Adaptive Environments
This agile scheduling technique “pulls” work from a backlog as resources free up and become available. This balances the demand against the team’s delivery throughput.
Hint: only do the work with the compatible resources that become available.
on-demand schedule
Doing the work on the spot as the resources become available. It does not rely on an already established schedule. Used to deliver the products in an incremental manner.
Agile/Adaptive Environments
Agile projects use this voting technique for decision making, where the next steps of each sprint are communicated with closed (not in favor) and open fists (in favor)
fist of five
Trends/Emerging Practices
Project schedules are incresingly accounting for … based on knowledge gained, increased understanding of the risks, and value-added activities (reducing time and cost).
providing some degree of flexibility for adjustments
Trends/Emerging Practices
Schedules should be able to adapt to changing needs of a fast-paced project environment, especially those with a long-term scope. ** Adaptive schedule planning** defines a plan but acknowledges that priorities may change throughout the project. What are the two emerging methodologies seen in project management?
on-demand scheduling
iterative scheduling with a backlog
Trends/Emerhing Practices
(iterative scheduling with backlog / on-demand scheduling) is common in operational environments and lean manufacturing. It is based on the theory of … and pull-based scheduling concepts.
Hint: common in Kanban systems; pulling from the backlog.
(iterative scheduling with backlog / on-demand scheduling) is common in operational environments and lean manufacturing. It is based on the theory of constraints and pull-based scheduling concepts.
Trends/Emerging Practices
Schedules should be able to adapt to changing needs of a fast-paced project environment, especially those with a long-term scope. ** Adaptive schedule planning** defines a plan but acknowledges that priorities may change throughout the project. This emerging method does not reuly ona d eveloped schedule model, but rather pulls from backlog to have work done as the resources become available.
on-demand scheduling
Agile/Adaptive Environment
When is the product backlog reprioritized in agile projects?
between sprints
Where the user stories (requirements) of the product backlog get reprioritized based on stakeholder input.
This methodology is the basis of on-demand scheduling, which identifies and tackles the important limiting factor in succession, which provides systematic improvement until no longer the largest one, then rinse and repeat.
theory of constraints
LIst the six (6) processes for Schedule Management.
6.1 - Plan Schedule Management (Planning)
6.2 - Define Activities (Planning)
6.3 - Sequence Activities (Planning)
6.4 - Estimate Durations (Planning)
6.5 - Develop Schedule (Planning)
6.6 - Control Schedule (Planning)
Process Overview
This process creates the subsidiary component that defines how the schedule will be developed, managed, executed, and controlled.
6.1 - Plan Schedule Management
6.1: Plan Schedule Management
You can use this key input to get information about the high-level summary milestones to help with Plan Schedule Management
project charter
6.1: Plan Schedule Management
The project charter is useful for Plan Schedule Management because it gives you this highest-level information that is essential for the schedule.
high-level summary milestones
6.1: Plan Schedule Management
What two key inputs (from the project management plan) are used for Plan Schedule Management
Hint: the first one helps you select from the trems introduced earlier in the chapter; the second one is obvious.
scope management plan
development approach
Hint: if predictive or agile (on-demand scheduling, rolling wave planning, iterative planning with backlog).
6.1: Plan Schedule Management
What is the key and only output for Plan Schedule Management?
Schedule Management Plan
6.1: Plan Schedule Management
Fill out the following components of the schedule management plan…
- methodology and tools to develop schedule …
- duration of these time-boxed periods (if agile)
- acceptable** … **ranges and the inclusion/exclusion of this buffer concept
- units of measurement for all/specific work and resources
- process for … during project execution
- control thresholds for … before implementing changes
- methodology and tools to develop schedule model
- duration of sprints/iterations
- acceptable accuracy ranges and the inclusion/exclusion of contingency reserves
- units of measurement for all/specific work and resources
- process for upating the schedule during project execution
- control thresholds for for the baselines before implementing changes
6.1: Plan Schedule Management
The scheduling managmeent plan helps establish guidelines for which scheduling approach willbe used (… or …). If agile, this plan specifies the specifies the length of the … … .
It also includes the control … for when action needs to be taken if scheudle starts to slip or deviate from th eplan.
It also includes the crtiera for following … … … regarding scheduling, and the level of accuracy for determining … estimates.
The scheduling managmeent plan helps establish guidelines for which scheduling approach willbe used (adaptive or predictive). If agile, this plan specifies the specifies the length of the sprint iteration.
It also includes the control thresholds for when action needs to be taken if scheudle starts to slip or deviate from the plan.
It also includes the crtiera for following earned value management regarding scheduling, and the level of accuracy for determining activity duration estimates.
Processes Overview
This process identifies and documents the specific actions that will be performed to produce the project deliverables and achieve the project objectives.
6.2: Define Activities
6.2: Define Activities
For this process, this critical document that was created from Scope Management will be used to define the activities.
The next step of decomposition.
work breakdown structure (WBS)
6.2: Define Activities
What two key outputs are needed to help Define Activities?
Hint: one is the next level of decomposition, and the other one is the obvious subsidiary project management plan.
scope baseline
schedule management plan
6.2: Define Activities
This tool/technique for Define Activities breaks down the work packages from the WBS into the final activity list by implementing the 8/80 rule.
decomposition
6.2: Define Activities
This method of planning/scheduling only plans the near-term activities in chunks.
rolling wave planning
6.2: Define Activities
Along with the key out of the activity list for the Define Activities process, this second key output describes their characteristics. This third key output also defines the major landmarks of the schedule.
activity list
activity attributes
milestones
