Schedule Management Ch 6 Flashcards
What are the components of Schedule Management?
- 1 Plan schedule management: process of establishing the policies, procedures and documentation for planning, developing, managing and controlling the project schedule
- 2 Define activities: process of identifying and documenting the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables
- 3 Sequence activities: Process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities
- 4 Estimate activity duration: process of estimating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with the estimated resources
- 5 Develop schedule: process of analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements and schedule constraints to create the project schedule model for project execution and monitoring and controlling
- 6 Control schedule: Process of monitoring the status of the project to update the project schedule and manage changes to the schedule baseline
What is the project schedule a result of?
Selecting scheduling method, then project-specific data (activities, planned dates, durations, resources, dependencies and constraints) are entered into a scheduling tool and create a schedule model for the project.
What is Iterative Scheduling With a Backlog?
Form of Rolling Wave Planning and used in Agile
Key benefit: welcomes changes throughout the development life cycle
The requirements are documented as user stories that are prioritized and refined just before construction and the product features are developed using time boxed periods of work
What is On-Demand Scheduling?
Team members pull work from queue when they have time
Does NOT rely on a schedule that was developed previously but pulls work from a backlog to be done immediately as resources become available
Used for projects that evolve the project incrementally in operational or sustainment environments or where tasks may be made relatively similar in size and scope or can be bundled by size and scope
Define: Plan Schedule Management (6.1)
process of establishing the policies, procedures and documentation for planning, developing, managing and controlling the project schedule
Key benefit: provides guidance and direction on how the project schedule will be managed
Inputs: Plan Schedule Management
Project charter
Project Management Plan:
- scope management plan
- development approach
EEFs
OPAs
Tools/Techniques: Plan Schedule Management
Expert Judgement
Data Analysis (alternatives analysis)
Meetings
Outputs: Plan Schedule Management
Schedule Management Plan
What is a Schedule Management Plan?
Establishes the criteria and activities for developing, monitoring and controlling the schedule
Define: Define Activities (6.2)
process of identifying and documenting the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables
Key benefit: it decomposes work packages into schedule activities that provide basis for estimating, scheduling, executing, monitoring and controlling the project work
Inputs: Define Activities
Project management plan:
-Schedule management
plan
-scope baseline
EEFs
OPAs
What is Scope Baseline?
The project WBS, deliverables, constraints and assumptions documents in the scope baseline are considered when defining activities
Tools/Techniques: Define Activities
Expert Judgement
Decomposition
Rolling Wave Planning
Meetings
What is Rolling Wave Planning?
Iterative project planning in waves as the project proceeds and later details become clearer. Work to be done in the near term is based on high level assumptions and high level milestones are set. As work progresses the milestones, risks and assumptions become more reliable and work further in the future is planned at a higher level
Outputs: Define Activities
Activity List
Activity Attributes
Milestone List
Change Requests
Project Management Plan UPDATES:
- schedule baseline
- cost baseline
What are Activity Attributes?
Identifying multiple components associated with each activity.
- Initially includes unique activities identifier (ID), WBS IS and activity label/name
- When completed, includes activity descriptions, predecessor activities, successor activities, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, imposed dates, constraints and assumptions
Define: Sequence Activities (6.3)
Process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities
Key benefit: defines the logical sequence of work to obtain greatest efficiency give all project constraints
Inputs: Sequence Activities
Project Management Plan:
-Schedule management
plan
-Scope baseline
Project Documents:
- activity attributes
- activity list
- assumption log
- milestone list
EEFs
OPAs
Tools/Techniques: Sequence Activities
Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
Dependency Determination and Integration
Leads & Lags
Project Management Information System (PMIS)
What is Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM):
technique used for creating a schedule model where activities are represented by nodes and are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are to be performed
4 relationships
What is Finish-to-Start (FS)
successor activity cannot start until predecessor activity has finished.
E.G. The foundation for the house must be finished (A) before the framing can start (B)
Most common
What is Finish-to-finish (FF)
Successor activity (Activity A) cannot finish before a predecessor activity (activity B) has finished
E.G. Writing a document (predecessor) is required to be finished before you can edit the document (successor)
What is Start-to-Start (SS)
Successor activity (Activity A) cannot start until a predecessor activity (activity B) has started
E.G. Cannot level out concrete (successor) until you begin to pour the concrete (precessor) begins
What is Start-to-Finish (SF)
Successor activity (Activity A) must start before (Activity B) has finished
E.G. A new system (successor) must start before an old one is replaced. ONLY example of this
Least common
