Blog Number 4

During this time in Project Management I've learned how to use a Gantt chart for planning and tracking schedule information, and find the critical path for a project, and also to describe how the critical chain scheduling and the program evaluation and review technique would affect schedule development. Also I can now understand the importance of project schedules, that managers often say that delivering projects on time to be one of their biggest challenges. Schedule issues I understand now are the main reason for conflict on most projects, especially during the second half of the project. There is also another factor to keep in mind as well "time" it has no flexibility it passes regardless of what happened on the project.
Here are the Project Time Management Processes

• Activity definition: Identifying the specific activities that the project team members and stakeholders must perform to produce the project deliverables.
• Activity sequencing: Identifying and documenting the relationships between project activities.
• Activity resource estimating: Estimating how many resources a project team should use to perform project activities.
• Activity duration estimating: Estimating the number of work periods that are needed to complete individual activities.
• Schedule development: Analyzing activity sequences, activity resource estimates, and activity duration estimates to create the project schedule.
• Schedule control: Controlling and managing changes to the project schedule.

Another piece I've leaned was the Three Types of Dependencies

• Mandatory dependencies: Inherent in the nature of the work being performed on a project; sometimes referred to as hard logic.
• Discretionary dependencies: Defined by the project team; sometimes referred to as soft logic and should be used with care because they may limit later scheduling options.
• External dependencies: Involve relationships between project and non-project activities

Sample Activity-on-Arrow (AOA) Network Diagram