Analysis of Project Schedule Management Report for Success

This report delves into the critical aspects of project schedule management, emphasizing its impact on project success. It discusses the significance of managing project scope changes, highlighting how these changes can affect costs and deadlines. The report stresses the importance of effectiv...Read More

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Schedule management can be referred to as a procedure to develop, maintain and
communicate schedule for both resources and time. The scheduling procedure starts with the
significant work, which is required for delivering stakeholders’ requirements (Kerzner 2017).
The major factors like limited resources and estimation of uncertainty are being considered
majorly in this phenomenon. It involves technical work, which creates output as well as
management activity for handling aspects like stakeholder management and risk
management.
Changes in project scope can cause increment of costs and even deadlines to be
unmet. Management of such changes in project scope could be extremely challenging for all
types of projects (Meredith, Mantel Jr and Shafer 2017). Effective decisions could be made
and necessary steps can be undertaken for better output. The impact of scope management on
project success can harm severely to the project after inclusion of missed deadlines,
overrunning of budgets and even failure of project.
At first, the change baseline should be identified for better management of scope
change, then subsequent change management in scope would be needed. When potential
changes are being identified, they should be properly prioritized and analysed so that project
managers could undertake necessary steps for making changes (Larson and Gray 2017). The
project manager should determine the changes to be made and process of all changes
impacting on project deliverables and variation from perceived scope influencing final
outcome of the project work.
The scope change is inevitable, although it is vital to weigh every proposed change
regarding evaluation of potential impacts on overall project management. The main purpose
of scope change management procedures is helping to manage, control as well as document
every change occurring in the projects (Heagney 2016). After completion of computations for

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project schedule and cost, it is required to present the scope change impact analysis on project
management objectives.
Communication is one of the major and the most significant requirement in project.
Project success is strongly dependent on effective communication and improvement in
communication can maximize success and minimize risks. Furthermore, a project manager
can develop effective communication with the stakeholders (Kerzner 2017). It is quite vital
for every stakeholder to learn about project variances and as a project manager, it is required
to ensure that all stakeholders and team members are aware of their roles and responsibilities
as well as time constraints for preventing them from accomplishment of task on time.
Another significant responsibility of the project manager for maintenance of project schedule
is to keep stakeholders informed of project progress and details.
As soon as information is relayed to stakeholders, project managers can regularly
access information for any specific project. An adherence to a system of focused and regular
communication could easily prevent any type of delay or misunderstanding, which could
cause major failure in the project (Meredith, Mantel Jr and Shafer 2017). Formal discussion
with stakeholders is yet another important method for notifying stakeholders regarding
variances of schedule management. It helps in removing complexities and delays in project to
a higher level and achieving long term goals of the project by managing schedules.

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References
Heagney, J., 2016. Fundamentals of project management. Amacom.
Kerzner, H., 2017. Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and
controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Larson, E.W. and Gray, C.F., 2017. Project management: The managerial process. McGraw-
Hill Education.
Meredith, J.R., Mantel Jr, S.J. and Shafer, S.M., 2017. Project management: a managerial
approach. John Wiley & Sons.