Project Management Plan Assignment (Doc)

ORGANIZATION’S NAME
Schedule
Management Plan
Project Name:
Project Number:
Prepared By: Author’s Name Here
Last Revised On: (Insert Date)
This schedule management plan is a component of the project management plan. It
establishes the criteria and the activities for developing, monitoring and controlling the
project schedule.

CONTENTS
Management Approach........................................................................................................... 2
Scheduling Method.................................................................................................................. 2
Scheduling Tool....................................................................................................................... 3
Schedule Processes................................................................................................................. 3
Define Activities................................................................................................................... 3
Sequence Activities.............................................................................................................. 4
Estimate Activity Resources................................................................................................. 4
Estimate Activity Durations.................................................................................................. 5
Develop Schedule................................................................................................................... 5
Control Schedule..................................................................................................................... 6
Report Schedule...................................................................................................................... 6
Assumptions............................................................................................................................ 6
Issues...................................................................................................................................... 7
Risks........................................................................................................................................ 7
Plan Approval.......................................................................................................................... 8
Attachments............................................................................................................................ 8
A. Activity List................................................................................................................... 8
B. Milestone List................................................................................................................ 8
C. Activity Attributes......................................................................................................... 9
D. Activity Duration Estimates........................................................................................... 9
E. Schedule Baseline......................................................................................................... 9
SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT PLAN
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MANAGEMENT APPROACH
NAMES / ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Names / Roles Responsibilities
Project Manager Owner of the schedule activities
Project Sponsor Approve the baseline schedule
Project Team Lead Provide inputs for developing the schedule and
updates for monitoring
Project Team Members Use schedule dates for planning their activities
Project Scheduler Update the schedule on regular basis
Project Planner Plan other activities according to this schedule and
interlink it with external schedules
SCHEDULING METHOD
For developing the schedule of the project ‘Talent Contest’ is developed as per CPM (Critical
Path Method) (Stelth, 2009). The schedule has all the activities aligned with each other
through the relationships provided. The final completion date is obtained by adding the
duration of the activities along with the early finish date of the predecessors.
SCHEDULING TOOL
MS Project 2016 software is used to develop the schedule (Microsoft, 2017). The schedule
after the regular updating shall be kept at the common shared folder with updated date
written there, to allow all access the right updated file. All team members can view the file
as long as they have MSP installed in their PCs but nobody shall be able to change or modify
it except the ‘Project Scheduler’.
SCHEDULE PROCESSES
DEFINE ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITY LIST
The list of project activities is included below in Attachment A.
Project Manager and Project Team Lead have to review the project deliverables and define
the activities. After the WBS (Project Smart, 2017) is developed to cover the overall scope of
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work, is then decomposed level by level till the work package level is reached, below this
level are the list of activities only. Rolling wave planning can be used to develop the
schedule as and when the project related data shall get exposed (McDonough, 2013). So
rolling wave planning shall be used to modify and update the schedule. Project Manager
shall validate the activities entered in to the schedule.
MILESTONE LIST
The project milestones are set forth in the milestone list included as Attachment B.
Milestones represent significant points or events in the project.
SEQUENCE ACTIVITIES
Project Scheduler is responsible for sequencing work activities. But the dependencies and
proper lags and leads shall be provided by the project team members and team leads to
projects scheduler to incorporate the information to the schedule. Yes network schedule
diagram be developed by Project Scheduler but presented by the Project Manager. Project
Scheduler shall be responsible for developing the schedule.
SCHEDULE CONSTRAINTS
Schedule need to start by 5th February 2018 to be on time, otherwise any day later can
impact the event date.
All the necessary permits shall be obtained before the event day
The event date is 5th July 2018 cannot be missed at any cost
ACTIVITY ATTRIBUTES
Sequencing information is included below in Attachment C., Activity Attributes.
ESTIMATE ACTIVITY RESOURCES
The Project Manager and Team Leads are responsible to estimate the activity resources and
after providing the data to Project Scheduler, he/she shall just feed the data in the schedule.
UNITS OF MEASUREMENT
Manpower – Man-Hours
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