Welcome, welcome to project schedule management. I am sure that mostly after discussing the objective of the project, and the high level scope, the first and foremost question as a project manager we receive, or we need to answer is how much time you will be taking in delivering this project. Maybe in the same breath, the sponsor or the management they may ask, how much cost? Or is or what kind of resources you would be requiring? Or do we have these skills in house? Or do we need to start working with the consultants or subcontractors or a contractor?

But first and foremost, we need to answer that how much time it's gonna take to deliver the product because no organization can commit to a project more than its logical time. Right. If you start a project there is always some expectation in terms of delivery, because the value all your projects are directly linked with the values that the the business case has already established and benefit management plan has already committed in terms of the timeline in the period when those benefits are important for an organization to be realized so that they can get the values out of it. That is why your timelines plays a very vital role in terms of delivery. Just to make sure that your timelines, your commitments, your milestones, your deliverables are just not dates on the calendar. PMI has a very specific and in depth study which is certification, which is for the project schedule management.

Here we will be talking about talking that you might have a project scheduler on your project and expert projects calendar scheduler might you might be doing it on your to own you might be using the other team members to help you to identify the project schedule. project schedule starts with the activities What are activities, they are actually the last. This is the next step of the last tab that we have left the way the word Breakdown Structure stops, work breakdown structure is the hierarchical structure of the deliverables of which you have identified in a project scope statement is a visualization of deliverables of project scope statement. So, the last level which is called project work package, this is what we as a component we will start defining and decomposing more into an activity so that we will we will be able to identify how much time we will take to deliver component what kind of resources that we will be needing and how what is the duration of that activity, it is very important to understand that the work package is our last smallest logical deliverable we as a project manager want to see on our project, then you may have a control level control package control package may be equal to the work package or maybe a level above or two from the work package where organization wants to control the project.

Then you may have a planning package which is a which is a package which is which is few which is in future for bid you don't have a detail level planning at this point and you don't know the what packet identification or work packet component for those planning packages. So, it takes that was package and we now identify because work package is the responsibility of a one person, one package you may take and give it to Mercedes Benz and you may take the whole work package And out outsources to some other company or you want to procure it some as a part of the work package. So, now, here we will take the word package and we will start defining the activities, then defining that tivities then looking into the sequencing that which activity needs to be done when then we will identifying the duration and in in all between this we need to know the resources because duration is directly linked with the resources that we have on our project.

Because if we have if we may have the unexperienced resource of duration might be less than if we have a junior resource or duration might be more and it again depends on the kind of resources that we have that are available and the kind of a timeline or milestone or X, external dependencies or constraint that we have on our project and all this actually plays a vital role. When you are working on a duration. In a real life, you open Microsoft Project you open primary primary care or you open Monday door Common you go and you do although that is maybe in a one screen, but just think for a second and divide this one minute into very small part of the second and you realize Can you do your region before knowing this scope? Or is that does it make logical? Do you even touch the duration before identifying the sequencing?

No, you don't do it, it is not normal human psyche, you know, normally normalization normal human psyche is that you start working with the activities that you need to do, then you create the relationship with which activity which deliver what which activity will deliver what you start identifying the tasks level. And then you identify that what is the sequence first to first finish to finish task to start finish to start start to finish and then you get into the duration. And then once this all is ready, you only put the first date of when you want to start a project and the whole project structure gives you the schedule. So all this data Projects project schedule data that is the output very vital output when you are actually talking about the project schedule management. This is where I stopped my introduction of project schedule management. Next we will look into these six processes that we have in this knowledge area.

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