Knowledge Areas- 04. Project Integration Management
- 05. Project Scope Management
- 06. Project Schedule Management
- 07. Project Cost Management
- 08. Project Quality Management
- 09. Project Resource Management
- 10. Project Communications Management
- 11. Project Risk Management
- 12. Project Procurement Management
- 13. Project Stakeholder Management
- 49 Processes in Project Management
6. Schedule Management
6.1 Plan Schedule Management - Planning Process Group
The process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule
Inputs
- Project Charter
- Project Management Plan
- Enterprise Environmental Factors
- Organizational Process Assets
Tools & Techniques
- Expert Judgment
- Data analysis
- Meetings
Outputs
- Schedule Management Plan
6.2 Define Activities - Planning Process Group
The process of identifying specific actions necessary to be performed to produce the project deliverables
Inputs
- Project Management Plan
- Enterprise Environmental Factors
- Organizational Process Assets
Tools & Techniques
- Expert Judgment
- Decomposition
- Rolling Wave Planning
- Meetings
Outputs
- Activity List
- Activity Attributes
- Milestone List
- Change Requests
- Project Management Plan Updates
6.3 Sequence Activities - Planning Process Group
The process of identifying and documenting the relationships among the project activities
Inputs
- Project Management Plan
- Project Documents
- Enterprise Environmental Factors
- Organizational Process Assets
Tools & Techniques
- Precedence Diagramming Method - PDM
- Dependency Determination & Integration
- Leads and Lags
- Project Management Information System
Outputs
- Project Schedule Network Diagram
- Project Document Updates
6.4 Estimate Activity Durations - Planning Process Group
Estimating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources
Inputs
- Project Management Plan
- Project Documents
- Enterprise Environmental Factors
- Organizational Process Assets
Tools & Techniques
- Expert Judgment
- Analogous Estimating
- Parametric Estimating
- Three point Estimating
- Bottom-up Estimating
- Data analysis
- Decision Making
- Meetings
Outputs
- Duration Estimates
- Basis of Estimates
- Project Document Updates
6.5 Develop Schedule - Planning Process Group
Analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements and schedule constraints to create a project schedule
Inputs
- Project Management Plan
- Project Documents
- Agreements
- Enterprise Environmental Factors
- Organizational Process Assets
Tools & Techniques
- Schedule Network Analysis
- Critical Path Method
- Resource Optimization
- Data Analysis
- Leads and Lags
- Schedule Compression
- Project Management Information System
- Agile Release Planning
Outputs
- Schedule Baseline
- Project Schedule
- Schedule Data
- Project Calendars
- Change Requests
- Project Management Plan Updates
- Project Document Updates
6.6 Control Schedule - Planning Process Group
The process of monitoring the status of the project to update the project schedule and managing changes to the schedule baseline
Inputs
- Project Management Plan
- Project Documents
- Work Performance Data
- Organizational Process Assets
Tools & Techniques
- Data analysis
- Critical Path Method
- Project Management Information System
- Resource Optimization
- Leads and Lags
- Schedule Compression
Outputs
- Work Performance Information
- Schedule Forecasts
- Change Requests
- Project Management Plan Updates
- Project Document Updates