Scheduling of a project
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This document discusses key aspects of project scheduling, including: - Scheduling determines the timing and sequence of project tasks. - Schedules are created to better manage projects, control changes, and monitor progress. - Key elements that are scheduled include milestones, activities, resources, and durations. - The scheduler must determine what tasks are needed, how they will be performed, who will perform them, and their sequence. - Common scheduling tools include Gantt charts, critical paths, floats, and scheduling software. - The scheduling process involves defining activities, sequencing them, estimating durations, developing the schedule, and controlling it.
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- 1. SCHEDULING OF A PROJECT SAILISH CEPHAS E 17MK09 M.E. INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING PSG COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY COIMBATORE
- 2. Contents • Introduction • Planning-overview • Scheduling • Why do we schedule? • When do we schedule? • What do we schedule? • Questions the scheduler asks • Terms used in scheduling • Steps in creating a project schedule • Hierarchy of schedules • Scheduling software
- 3. Introduction • Before I start project scheduling I will summarize shortly what is project and project management. • Project-Planned set of interrelated tasks to be executed over a fixed period and within certain cost and other limitations. • Construction project • Project management-Project management is the application of processes, methods, knowledge, skills and experience to achieve the project objectives. – Buying clothes
- 4. Planning-overview • Making decisions with the objective of influencing the future. • What tasks will be performed? • How tasks will be performed? • Who will perform the tasks? • Its an ‘ART’ form based on experience and knowledge.
- 5. scheduling • Determination of timing of events in the Project. • When tasks will be performed? • In what sequence the tasks will be performed? • Reflection of plan. • Its like ‘SCIENCE’. • Formalized method of managing time and resources.
- 6. Why do we schedule? • Better manage the project. • Control change. • Satisfy customer or contractual requirements. • Monitor and measure progress against goals
- 7. What do you schedule? • Milestones- it’s a reference point that marks a major event or a branching decision point within a project. • Activities required by contract or customer. • Activities critical to the performance of the project. • Changes to the original plan.
- 8. When do you schedule? • Prior to, or at the beginning of a project. This schedule is referred to as the “baseline”. • At periodic intervals during the project. This is commonly referred to “updating”. • If there are changes in the scope of the project. • If the project is substantially behind or ahead of the baseline.
- 9. Questions the Scheduler Asks • What tasks will be performed? (Scope) • How will the tasks be performed? (Execution Plan) • What is the sequence in which the tasks will be performed?(Execution Plan & Resources) • Who will perform the tasks? (Resources & Execution Plan) • Where is the equipment list, is there any exotic material used? (Scope & Execution Plan) • How many s/c’s do we plan to use? (Execution Plan & Resources) • What Permits are required and who is responsible for them? (Scope & Execution Plan) • Where is the Project to be executed? (Scope, Execution Plan & Resources)
- 10. Terms used in scheduling • Activity (Schedule or Task). • Duration. • Predecessor & successor. • Relationship – Finish to Start ‐ FS-the start of the next activity is dependent upon the completion of the previous activity. • E.g.: on a construction project, you can’t pour the concrete until the reinforcing steel is in place. – Start to Start ‐ SS – Finish to Finish ‐ FF – Start to Finish ‐ SF
- 11. • Bar Chart (Gantt)- Graphical representation of a group of activities making up a project, represented by bars along the horizontal time axis. Shows duration and planned sequence of activities.
- 12. • Critical Path - The path or paths which are the series of activities having zero float and must be completed on their scheduled dates. • Milestone-A point in time that signifies either the beginning or the end of a series of related activities. • Float- amount of time that a task in a project can be delayed without causing a delay to subsequent tasks. • Resource-Anything needed to complete an activity: labor, materials, equipment, design, etc.
- 13. • Work breakdown Structure (WBS) - organizes the team's work into smaller manageable sections.
- 14. Steps in creating a project schedule • Activity Definition. • Activity Sequencing- relationship • Estimating Activity Duration • Schedule Development. • Schedule Control.(monitor and control)
- 15. Hierarchy of Schedules • Milestone Summary Schedule – Level 1 • Project Intermediate Schedules – Level 2 • Details – Level 3 and 4 -working schedule
- 16. Scheduling software • Microsoft project • Primavera p6 • ZOHO projects • Fastrack schedule9 • Workfront There are so much jobs out there as a project scheduler.