Project Scheduling

Project Scheduling
The policies, procedures and documentation that the project team is to put in place to ensure that the development of a project is completed on time.

Breaking the total project work into separate activities – Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) estimating the required time for each activity Identifying parallel activities-happening at the same time Estimating resources needed Assigning responsibilities.

Project Scheduling Activities

Project Scheduling Techniques
Project schedules are represented as:

• WBS: A Work Break DownStructure partitions a large project into its component activities or products. It can be represented using either Hierarchical chart WBS or Indented list WBS.
• Activity networks: Activity networks represent this list in a graphical form with activities either on arrows or nodes. CPM and PERT are the two forms of activity networks.
• PERT: form of activity network.
• Gantt: Two dimensional representations that show tasks and corresponding start and end dates.

Software management tools such as Microsoft Project can be used to implement the above techniques.

WBS - A Hierarchical Chart

WBS - An Intended List

PERT/CPM CHART

GANT CHART