Schedule Component for Mobile Application Development Project

1. Schedule Component
1.1 Purpose/Overview
The purpose of the component is to manage and define the schedule for the project. The project
includes the mobile application development for a business firm. There will be a wide range of
activities that will be involved in the project and this component includes the schedule baseline
and schedule control tasks.
1.2 Schedule Baseline
Tasks Description
Creation of the Activity
List and attributes
The creation of the project activity list and their associated
attributes will be regulated using the project management
methodology being used in the project. Project Management
Body of Knowledge (PMBoK) is the methodology that is being
used and the development of the activity list will be done using
the five phases defined under the methodology. The Project
Manager will be the primary resource that will be involved in
the process of creation of the list and will be assisted by the
other resources, such as Business Analyst, Technical Expert,
and Finance Officer.
Estimation of activity
resources
The estimation of the activity resources in terms of the human
resource hours to be assigned and the involvement of
equipment/tools will be done using Microsoft Project as the
tool. The resources will be mapped as per the requirement of
every project activity and the over-loading of the resource(s)
will be tracked by the tool (Yaghootkar & Gil, 2012).
Activity duration
estimates
The use of bottom-up estimation technique will be used to
develop duration estimates. In this technique, the activities at
the lowermost level will be selected first and the schedule
estimation of these activities will be done. It will then be
followed by the activities at the higher levels. The combination
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of the duration of all of these activities will give the total project
duration.
Approval of the schedule
baseline
The schedule baseline will be internally approved by the Project
Manager and it will then be sent to the Project Director for
approval.
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