Project Time Management For Construction

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Project Time Management For Construction

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Project Time Management

• Project time management is often cited as the
  main source of conflict on projects, and most IT
  projects exceed time estimates.
• Main processes include
• Activity definition
• Activity sequencing
• Activity resource estimating
• Activity duration estimating
• Schedule development
• Schedule control

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Project Time Management Processes

• Action definition Identifying the particular
  activities that the task members and stakeholders
  must perform to create the project deliverables.
• Action sequencing Identifying and archiving the
  connections between task exercises.
• Action asset evaluating Estimating what number
  of assets an undertaking group ought to use to
  perform project activities.
• Activity duration estimating Estimating the
  quantity of work periods that are expected to
  finish individual activities.
• Plan improvement Analyzing action successions,
  movement asset evaluations, and action span
  assessments to make the venture plan.
• Plan control Controlling and overseeing changes
  to the undertaking plan.

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Activity Definition

• An activity or task is an element of work that
  defines expected duration, a cost, and resource
  requirements.
• Project schedules grow out of the basic documents
  that initiate a project which charter includes
  start and end dates and budget information.
• Activity definition involves developing a more
  detailed explanations to understand all the work
  to be done, so you can develop realistic cost and
  duration estimates.

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Activity Resource Estimating

• Before estimating activity durations, you must
  have a good idea of the quantity and type of
  resources that will be assigned to each activity.
• Important issues in estimating resources
• How difficult will it be to complete specific
  activities on this project?
• What is the organizations history in doing
  similar activities?
• Are the required resources available?

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Gantt Charts

• Gantt diagrams give a standard organization to
  showing venture plan data by listing project
  activities and their corresponding start and
  finish dates in a calendar format.

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Schedule Development

• Uses results of the other time management
  processes to determine the start and end dates of
  the project.
• Extreme objective is to make a practical
  undertaking plan that gives a premise to
  observing task progress for the time measurement
  of the venture.
• Important tools and techniques include Gantt
  charts, critical path analysis and critical chain
  scheduling.

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Schedule Control

• Goals are to know the status of the calendar,
  impact calculates that bring about timetable
  changes, verify that the calendar has changed,
  and oversee changes when they happen.
• Tools and techniques include
• Progress reports.
• A schedule change control framework.
• Venture administration programming, including
  plan examination graphs.
• Variance analysis, such as analyzing float or
  slack.
• Performance management.

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Using Software to Assist in Time Management

• Software for facilitating communication helps
  people exchange schedule-related information.
• Decision support models help analyze trade-offs
  that can be made.
• Project management software can help in various
  time management areas.

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