Introducing Project Time Management - Controlling the Project Schedule
7 important questions on Introducing Project Time Management - Controlling the Project Schedule
What are the four factors of schedule control?
- It documents the current status
- Working with the factors that can cause schedule change and checks the change (are they needed, have they happened, can't be avoided, are they agreed upon)
- Examining of the work results and conditions to determine whether the schedule has changed
- The project manager manages the changes in the schedule.
What is the formal approach to manage changes to the project schedule?
What are the ways a project manager can control the project schedule?
- Manage the inputs to schedule control
- Applying a schedule control system
- Measuring project performance
- Examine the schedule variance - actual vs scheduled dates
- Higher grades + faster learning
- Never study anything twice
- 100% sure, 100% understanding
What should a project manager watch as part of examining the schedule variance?
- The actual vs the scheduled dates
- The paths with float (from path with least float to path with largest float)
What should a project manager do as a result of controlling the project schedule?
- Updating the project schedule to reflect the change
- Applying corrective action
- Writing lessons learned
What are ways to accommodate to change the project end-date? Which one is the most preferred?
- Re-baselining
- Schedule revision
Schedule revision is preferred since re-baselining is a worst case scenario and something that should only be used for long drastic delays.
What activities are included in applying corrective action?
- Extraordinary measures to ensure work packages gets completed as scheduled
- Extraordinary measure to ensure work packages complete with as little delay as possible
- Root-cause analysis of schedule variances
- Measures to recover from schedule delays.
The question on the page originate from the summary of the following study material:
- A unique study and practice tool
- Never study anything twice again
- Get the grades you hope for
- 100% sure, 100% understanding