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This document discusses project scheduling techniques and project management. It describes project scheduling as identifying tasks, estimating durations, allocating resources, and scheduling tasks. Two scheduling techniques are presented: milestone charts and activity networks. Milestone charts mark significant project events, while Gantt charts are a type of milestone chart that uses horizontal bars to show task durations and dependencies on a timeline. Project management tools can incorporate Gantt charts to track project progress.

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Grant Chart

This document discusses project scheduling techniques and project management. It describes project scheduling as identifying tasks, estimating durations, allocating resources, and scheduling tasks. Two scheduling techniques are presented: milestone charts and activity networks. Milestone charts mark significant project events, while Gantt charts are a type of milestone chart that uses horizontal bars to show task durations and dependencies on a timeline. Project management tools can incorporate Gantt charts to track project progress.

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Scheduling Techniques & Project Management

Project management is the process by which a proposed project is developed within a rigorous framework. The subset of project management that this lecture will focus on is 'project scheduling', that is the process by which the various activities that need to be undertaken during a projects lifetime should be scheduled. There are a range of activity management tools that are commercially available.

1. Project Scheduling
Project scheduling is concerned with the techniques that can be employed to manage the activities that need to be undertaken during the development of a project. Scheduling is carried out in advance of the project commencing and involves:

identifying the tasks that need to be carried out; estimating how long they will take; allocating resources (mainly personnel); scheduling when the tasks will occur.

Once the project is underway control needs to be exerted to ensure that the plan continues to represent the best prediction of what will occur in the future:

based on what occurs during the development; often necessitates revision of the plan.

Effective project planning will help to ensure that the systems are delivered:

within cost; within the time constraint; to a specific standard of quality.

Two project scheduling techniques will be presented, the Milestone Chart (or Gantt Chart) and the Activity Network.

2. Milestone Charts

Milestones mark significant events in the life of a project, usually critical activities which must be achieved on time to avoid delay in the project. Milestones should be truely significant and be reasonable in terms of deadlines (avoid using intermediate stages). Examples include:

installation of equipment; completion of phases; file conversion; cutover to the new system.

2.1 Gantt Charts A Gantt chart is a horizontal bar or line chart which will commonly include the following features:

activities identified on the left hand side; time scale is drawn on the top (or bottom) of the chart; a horizontal open oblong or a line is drawn against each activity indicating estimated duration; dependencies between activities are shown; at a review point the oblongs are shaded to represent the actual time spent (an alternative is to represent actual and estimated by 2 separate lines); a vertical cursor (such as a transparent ruler) placed at the review point makes it possible to establish activities which are behind or ahead of schedule.

Project management tools incorporating Gantt Charts include PRINCE [CCTA, 1990], MacProject and Microsoft Project. Example of a Gantt Chart:

Figure 1: Example of a Gantt Chart Which tasks is ahead of schedule ? Which task is behind schedule ? Alternative Gantt Chart incorporating features commonly present in automated tools:

Figure 2: Example of a Gantt Chart showing Project Management Tool Features Gantt charts produced in this form are:

graphical; easy to read;

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