Plan Schedule Management

Process

Defining how the project schedule will be developed, managed, executed, and controlled.

When performed: Once or at predefined points

Process group: Planning

Knowledge Area: Schedule Management

Outputs Created

• Schedule management plan*

Inputs

• Project charter*
• Scope management plan*
• Development approach*
• Enterprise environmental factors
  • Organizational culture and structure
  • Team resource availability and skills and physical resource availability
  • Scheduling software
  • Guidelines and criteria for tailoring the organization’s set of standard processes and procedures to satisfy the specific needs of the project
  • Commercial databases, such as standardized estimating data
• Organizational process assets
  • Historical information and lessons learned repositories
  • Existing schedule development, management and control related policies, procedures, and guidelines
  • Templates and forms
  • Monitoring and reporting tools

Tools & Techniques

• Alternatives analysis
• Meetings
• Expert judgment

Key inputs & outputs are indicated with *