Project Schedule Management
GLOSSARY
Project Schedule: a list of project milestones, deliverables, and activities usually with intended start and finish dates.
Milestone: major accomplishments or a significant event of the project and mark the completion of major deliverables or some other key event in the project
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- Duration = 0
WHY SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT
- Murphy’s Law: what can go wrong will go wrong
- Padding: team members have a tendency to pad activity duration estimates to account for uncertainties
- Student Syndrome: wait until the lastest possible time to start
- Parkinson’s Law: work expands to fill available time
PROJECT SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT PROCESS
PLAN SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT
WHAT IS
Establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for developing, managing, and controlling the project schedule
WHEN
Once or at predefined points in the project
HOW TO
Tham khảo lại các tài liệu của tổ chức, hỏi ý kiến chuyên gia, phân tích các giải pháp khác nhau(alternative analysis)
OUTPUT
— Schedule management plan:
- Formal or informal, highly detailed or broadly frame based on the needs of the project.
- A component of the project management plan
- May contains the item: project schedule model development, Release and iteration length, length of accuracy (mức độ chính xác của ước lượng), unit of measure, rule of performance measurement ( % complete, schedule variance SV, schedule performance index SPI ), Control threshold (pre-approved that allow PM make the change on Project Schedule Diagram without report), reporting format
INPUT
— Project charter: summary milestone
— Project Management Plan
- Scope management plan: scope baseline
- Development approach: sequential, iterative, incremental or agile/adaptive
- EEF: những yếu tố ngoài dựa án, thường là ngoài tổ chức, PM không can thiệp được
- OPA: những yếu tố mà trong tổ chức, dự án có thể tác động được
TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
— Data Analysis
- Alternatives analysis: tìm các giải pháp khác nhau để có thể quản lý project schedule
— Expert Judgment
— Meeting
