Time Management

Time management process 1. Define activity - planning 2. Sequence Activity - planning 3. Estimate Activity Resource - planning 4. Estimate Activity Duration - planning 5. Develop Schedule - planning 6. Control schedule – planning Schedule Management plan - It is not part of the scheduling process - It is created as part of the “Develop project management plan” process in the integration management The scheduling management plan includes the following 1. Methodology 2. Software needs to be used 3. Rules for estimation( eg days or hrs, include dev + testing) 4. Establishment of schedule baseline for measuring against as part of the Project monitoring and controlling 5. Identification of performance measure that will be used on the project, to identify variance early. 6. Planning for how schedule variance will be managed 7. Identification of schedule change control procedures 8. Reporting format to be used. The schedule management plan is a formal or informal , but it is part of the project management plan. It helps make the scheduling estimating process faster by providing guidelines on how estimated should be stated. During the m&c the schedule management plan if a variance is over the allowable threshold and therefore must be acted upon. Define Activity The process of identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables. Input Scope Baseline Enterprise environmental factor Organizational process Asset Tools and Technique Decomposition Expert judgment Rolling wave planning Templates Output Activity list Activity attributes Activity milestone Rolling wave planning: Better to not estimating lower level instead estimate in the higher level . Sequence Activity The activity and milestone and sequencing them in the order in which work will be performed. The result is network diagram.