4. Define activities: the process of identifying the
specific actions to be performed to produce the project
deliverables.
Inputs
• Scope baseline
• OPA
• EEF
Tools &
techniques
• Decomposition
• Rolling wave
planning
• Templates
• Expert
judgment
Outputs
• Activity list
• Activity
attributes
• Milestone list
5. Define activities tools & techniques
Decomposition
Rolling wave planning: (progressive elaboration),
where the work be accomplished in the near term is
planned in details and future work is planned at a
higher level of the WBS.
Templates
Expert judgment.
6. Define activities outputs
Activity list
Activity attributes: include activity ID, WBS ID,
activity description, predecessor & successor activities,
logical relationships, resources required.
Milestone list: significant point or event in the project
may be mandatory or optional.
7. Sequence activities
The process of identifying and documenting
relationships among the project activities.
10. Applying leads & lags:
Leads: allows an acceleration of the successor
activity (finish to start with x days lead).
Lags: directs a delay in the successor activity (start
to start with days lags).
11.
12. Schedule network templates: standard templates
should be used. For the identical projects.
15. 3- Estimate activity resources
Process of estimate the type & quantities of material,
people, equipment or suppliers required to perform
each activity.
18. 4- Estimate activity duration
Process of approximating the number of work periods
needed to complete individual activities with
estimated resources.
20. 5- Develop schedule
Process of analyzing activity sequence, durations,
resources requirements and schedule constrains to
create the project schedule.
22. Develop schedule tools &
techniques
Schedule network analysis: a technique that
generates the project schedule.
Critical path method CPM:
longest time duration & the shortness that the
project can take.
23.
24. Resource leveling: to keep resource usage at a
constant level. Resource leveling can often cause the
original critical path to change .
What – if scenario: stimulates different
Applying leads & lags
25. Schedule compression: shortens the project
schedule without changing project scope.
Crashing : cost schedule tradeoffs.
Frast tracking: activities performed in sequence are
performed in parallel
Scheduling tools
26. Develop schedule outputs
Project schedule:
Presents linked activities with planned dates,
durations, milestones, and resources.
Formats: Bar charts (gantt charts)
27. Schedule baseline
Schedule data: schedule milestones, schedule
activities, and all identified assumptions & constrains,
resource requirements with period, resource
histogram and contingency reserve.
28. 6- Control schedule
Process of monitoring the status of the project to
update project progress and manage changes to the
schedule baseline.
29. Inputs
• Project
management plan
• Project schedule
• Work
performance
information
• OPA
Tools & techniques
• Performance
reviews
• Variance analysis
• Project
management
software
• Resource leveling
• What if scenario
analysis
• Adjusting leads &
lags
• Schedule
compression
• Scheduling tools
Outputs
• Work
performance
measurements
• Organizational
process assets
updates
• Change requests
• Project
management plan
updates
• Project
documents
updates