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PROJECT
SCHEDULING
PROCESS
STEPS IN PROJECT SCHEDULING
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STEPS IN PROJECT SCHEDULING
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SCOPE PLANNING
DEFINE ACTIVITIES
SEQUENCE ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITY ESTIMATION
DEVELOP SCHEDULE
STEP 1
STEP 2
STEP 3
STEP 4
STEP 5

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STEP 1 - SCOPE PLANNING
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• Collect Requirements
• Develop Scope Statement
• Product Scope
• Project Scope
• Create WBS
• Identify Work Packages
• Develop WBS Dictionary
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Book
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1.1 Writing
1.2
Publishing
1.3
Producing
1.4 Selling
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Retail
3.4 Selling2.4 Selling
3.3
Producing
2.3
Producing
3.2
Recording
2.2
Recording
2.1 Writing 3.1 Writing
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Retail
1.4.1
Retail
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STEP 2 - DEFINE ACTIVITIES
• Create List of Activities by Decomposing Work Packages
• Identify Activity Attributes
• Create Milestone List
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STEP 3 – SEQUENCE ACTIVITIES
• Check Dependencies between Activities
• Mandatory
• Discretionary
• External
• Internal
• Define Relationships between Activities
• Finish to Start (FS)
• Start to Start (SS)
• Finish to Finish (FF)
• Start to Finish (SF)
• Draw Network Diagram
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SellingProducingRecordingWriting
SellingProducingRecordingWriting
Writing SellingProducingPublishing
START FINISH
BOOK
CD
DVD
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STEP 4 – ACTIVITY ESTIMATION
• Estimate Activity Resources
• Expert Judgement
• Alternative Analysis
• Bottom Up Estimation
• Published Estimating Data
• Estimate Activity Durations
• Expert Judgement
• Analogous Estimation
• Parametric Estimation
• Three-point Estimation
• Add Contingency Reserves
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STEP 5 – DEVELOP SCHEDULE
• Apply Schedule, Resource & Other Constraints on Activities
• Optimize & Develop Schedule
• Critical Path Method (CPM)
• Critical Chain Method (CCM)
• Resource Optimization Techniques
• Resource Levelling
• Resource Smoothing
• Modelling Techniques
• What-if Scenario Analysis
• Simulation
• Leads & Lags
• Schedule Compression
• Crashing
• Fast Tracking
• Add Contingency Reserves
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