PMP - Time Management ITo

processes needed to ensure timely completion of the project

• processes:
• 6.1 Define Activities
• 6.2 Sequence Activities
• 6.3 Estimate Activity Resources
• 6.4 Estimate Activity Durations
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 6.6 Control Schedule

• identifying the activities that must be performed
• Inputs:
• 1. Scope baseline
• 2. EEF
• 3. OPA

• Tools:
• 1. Decomposition
• 2. Rolling Wave Planning
• 3. Templates
• 4. Expert Judgment

• Outputs:
• 1. Activity List
• 2. Activity Attributes
• 3. Milestone List

• identifying activity dependencies
• Inputs:
• 1. activity list
• 2. activity attributes
• 3. milestone list
• 4. project scope statement
• 5. OPA

• Tools:
• 1. Precedence Diagram Method (PDM)
• 2. Dependency determination
• 3. applying leads and lags
• 4. Schedule network templates

• Outputs:
• 1. Project schedule network diagrams
• 2. project document updates

estimating the type & quantity of resources needed

• Inputs:
• 1. activity list
• 2. activity attributes
• 3. resource calendars
• 4. EEF
• 5. OPA

• Tools:
• 1. Expert judgment
• 2. alternatives analysis
• 3. published estimating data
• 4. bottom-up estimating
• 5. project management software

• Outputs:
• 1. Activity resource requirements
• 2. resource breakdown structure (rbs)
• 3. project document updates

estimating durations of individual activities

• Inputs:
• 1. activity list
• 2. activity attributes
• 3. activity resource requirements
• 4. resource calendars
• 5. project scope statement
• 6. EEF
• 7. OPA

• Tools:
• 1. expert judgment
• 2. analogous estimating
• 3. parametric estimating
• 4. bottom-up estimating
• 5. project management software

• Outputs:
• 1. activity duration estimates
• 2. project document updates

analyzing sequences, durations, resource requirements and contstraints to create the project schedule

• Inputs:
• 1. activity list
• 2. activity attributes
• 3. network diagrams
• 4. resource requirements
• 5. resource calendars
• 6. duration estimates
• 7. scope statement
• 8. EEF
• 9. OPA

• Tools:
• 1. network analysis
• 2. critical path method
• 3. critical chain method
• 4. resource leveling
• 5. what-if scenario analysis
• 6. applying leads & lags
• 7. Schedule compression
• 8. Scheduling tool

• Outputs:
• 1. Project schedule
• 2. Schedule baseline
• 3. Schedule data
• 4. Project document updates

monitoring status and managing changes to the schedule baseline

• Inputs:
• 1. Project management plan
• 2. project schedule
• 3. work performance information
• 4. OPA

• Tools:
• 1. Performance reviews
• 2. variance analysis
• 3. project management software
• 4. resource leveling
• 5. what-if scenario analysis
• 6. adjust leads & lags
• 7. schedule compression
• 8. scheduling tool

• Outputs:
• 1. work performance measurements
• 2. OPA updates
• 3. change requests
• 4. project management plan updates
• 5. project document updates