The document discusses Plan Schedule Management from the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) 6th edition. It defines Plan Schedule Management as establishing policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling a project's schedule. The key inputs are the project charter, project management plan, enterprise environmental factors, and organizational process assets. Techniques used include expert judgement, data analysis such as alternative analysis, and meetings. The main output is the Schedule Management Plan, which establishes how the project schedule will be defined, sequenced, estimated, developed, and controlled.

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Plan Schedule
management
PMPChapter 6 –
Project Schedule Management

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6.1 Plan Schedule management
Overview
Plan Schedule Management Definition
Plan Schedule management : ITTO
What is Alternative analysis?
Content of Schedule Management plan?
Review

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Schedule Management processes
Plan Schedule
management
Define Activities Sequence Activities
Estimate Activity
Duration
Develop Schedule Control Schedule
P P P
MCP P

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Plan Schedule management -> Overview
Planning
How to create
schedule, baseline
it & monitor it.

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Establishing policies, procedures & documentation for planning,
developing, managing, executing & controlling project schedule.
Provide guidance & direction on how the project
schedule will be managed.
Establishing
Planning Developing Managing
Executing Controlling
Plan Schedule management -> Definition
Project Schedule

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Plan Schedule Management ->ITTO
Expert Judgment
Data analysis
Meetings
Project Charter
Project Management
plan
Enterprise
environmental factors
Organizational process
assets
Schedule
Management plan
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs

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Project Charter PMP
Enterprise env.
factors
Organizational
process assets
Plan Schedule Management -> Input

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Project
Charter
Summary Milestone Schedule.
Project deadline.
Plan Schedule Management -> Input -> Project Charter

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PMP
PMP contains the information about project execution and control.
Plan Schedule Management -> Input -> PMP
• shows how to go from the detailed Work
Breakdown Structure to Define
Activities.
Scope
Management
Plan
• will impact, how the schedule is
estimated, developed, and controlled.
Product
developmental
approach
Scope Manag.
plan
Development
approach

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Enterprise
env. factors
Guidelines for tailoring
Organizational culture
& structure.
Resource availability &
skills.
Published commercial
data – Estimating data,
resource productivity.
Scheduling tool / Work
authorization tool.
Plan Schedule Management -> Input -> EEF

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Organizational
process assets
Scheduling related
lessons learned.
Schedule Templates.
Monitoring and
reporting tools.
Schedule control tools
Related policies,
procedures &
guidelines.
Plan Schedule Management->Input->OPA

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Expert Judgment Data analysis Meetings
Plan Schedule Management-> Tools & Techniques

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Expert
Judgment
Expertise in the area of schedule development for your specific industry
Expert in using scheduling software
Understand various scheduling methodologies like predictive or adaptive
Plan Schedule Manag.->T&T->Expert Judgment
Schedule
Development
Scheduling Software
Scheduling
methodologies
Industry
Specialized
knowledge in

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Data analysis
The data analysis techniques used is Alternatives analysis
Plan Schedule Management ->T&T-> Data analysis
Which schedule
methodology to
use
How to combine
various methods
level of detail
schedule required.
Durations of waves
for waving rolling
planning
Balance between
level of detailed
ageist time
required
Alternative
analysis

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Participants in the meetings are:
Project
Manager
Project
Sponsor
Selected team
members
Selected
stakeholders
Anyone with
schedule related
responsibilities
Plan Schedule Management ->T&T->Meetings
suggest milestone
datesDiscuss & agree on
Schedule planning &
execution
Meetings

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Plan Schedule Management -> Output->SMP
Schedule
Management plan

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Schedule
Management plan
Establishes criteria & activities for developing, monitoring & controlling schedule.
Plan Schedule Management -> Output
Define Activities
•How WBS will be used to further decompose the
deliverables or project work into the activities?
Sequence Activities
•How activities are sequenced and how Project
schedule model development is done.
•Critical Path Method , scheduling tool
Estimate Activity Duration
•Contains information about how activities are
estimated.
•Level of accuracy, Units of measure

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Schedule
Management plan
Plan Schedule Management -> Output
Develop Schedule
•How to finalize the schedule and baseline it.
•Describe Release and iteration length
•Usually this is a 2 or 4-week cycle
Control Schedule
•Guidelines on monitoring & controlling project
schedule
Schedule model
maintenance
Rules of performance
measurement
Control thresholds Reporting formats

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Plan Schedule Management -> Review
Why Schedule planning is required
Plan Schedule Management Definition
Plan Schedule management : ITTO
What is Alternative analysis?
Content of Schedule Management plan?

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