Project Schedule Management

Plan Schedule Management

Inputs

  1. Project charter

  2. Project management plan

    • Scope management plan

    • Development approach

  3. Enterprise environmental factors

  4. Organizational process assets

Tools & Techniques

  1. Expert judgement

  2. Data analysis

  3. Meetings

Outputs

  1. Schedule management plan

Define Activities

Inputs

  1. Project management plan

    • Schedule management plan

    • Scope baseline

  2. Enterprise environmental factors

  3. Organizational process assets

Tools & Techniques

  1. Expert judgement

  2. Decomposition

  3. Rolling wave planning

  4. Meetings

Outputs

  1. Activity list

  2. Activity attributes

  3. Milestone list

  4. Change requests

  5. Project management plan updates

    • Schedule baseline

    • Cost baseline

Sequence Activities

Inputs

  1. Project management plan

    • Schedule management plan

    • Scope baseline

  2. Project documents

    • Activity attributes

    • Activity list

    • Assumption log

    • Milestone list

  3. Enterprise environmental factors

  4. Organizational process assets

Tools & Techniques

  1. Precedence diagramming

  2. Dependency determination and integration

  3. Leads and lags

  4. Project management information system

Outputs

  1. Project schedule network diagrams

  2. Project documents updates

    • Activity attributes

    • Activity list

    • Assumption log

    • Milestone list

Estimate Activity Durations

Inputs

  1. Project management plan

    • Schedule management plan

    • Scope baseline

  2. Project documents

    • Activity attributes

    • Activity list

    • Assumption log

    • Lessons learned register

    • Milestone list

    • Project team assignments

    • Resource breakdown structure

    • Resource calendars

    • Resource requirements

    • Risk register

  3. Enterprise environmental factors

  4. Organizational process assets

Tools & Techniques

  1. Expert judgement

  2. Analogous estimating

  3. Parametric estimating

  4. Three-point estimating

  5. Bottom-up estimating

  6. Data analysis

    • Alternatives analysis

    • Reserve analysis

  7. Decision making

  8. Meetings

Outputs

  1. Duration estimates

  2. Basis estimates

  3. Project documents updates

    • Activity attributes

    • Assumption log

    • Lessons learned register

Develop Schedule

Inputs

  1. Project management plan

    • Schedule management plan

    • Scope baseline

  2. Project documents

    • Activity attributes

    • Activity list

    • Assumption log

    • Basis of estimates

    • Duration estimates

    • Lessons learned register

    • Milestone list

    • Project schedule network diagrams

    • Project team assignments

    • Resource calendars

    • Resource requirements

    • Risk register

  3. Agreements

  4. Enterprise environmental factors

  5. Organizational process assets

Tools & Techniques

  1. Schedule network analysis

  2. Critical path method

  3. Resource optimization

  4. Data analysis

    • What-if scenario analysis

    • Simulation

  5. Leads and lags

  6. Schedule compression

  7. Project management information system

  8. Agile release planning

Outputs

  1. Schedule baseline

  2. Project schedule

  3. Schedule data

  4. Project calendars

  5. Change requests

  6. Project management plan updates

    • Schedule management plan

    • Cost baseline

  7. Project documents updates

    • Activity attributes

    • Assumption log

    • Duration estimates

    • Lessons learned register

    • Resource requirements

    • Risk register

Control Schedule

Inputs

  1. Project management plan

    • Schedule management plan

    • Schedule baseline

    • Scope baseline

    • Performance measurement baseline

  2. Project documents

    • Lessons learned register

    • Project calendars

    • Project schedule

    • Resource calendars

    • Schedule data

  3. Work performance data

  4. Organizational process assets

Tools & Techniques

  1. Data analysis

    • Earned value analysis

    • Iteration burndown chart

    • Performance reviews

    • Trend analysis

    • Variance analysis

    • What-if scenario analysis

  2. Critical path method

  3. Project management information system

  4. Resource optimization

  5. Leads and lags

  6. Schedule compression

Outputs

  1. Work performance information

  2. Schedule forecasts

  3. Change requests

  4. Project management plan updates

    • Schedule management plan

    • Schedule baseline

    • Schedule baseline

    • Cost baseline

    • Performance measurement baseline

  5. Project documents updates

    • Assumption log

    • Basis of estimates

    • Lessons learned register

    • Project schedule

    • Resource calendars

    • Risk register

    • Schedule data