Practice Standard for Scheduling Project Manager

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Practice Standard for SchedulingProject
Managers Meeting Status
April 28, 2004
Project Manager Douglas Clark, CEO of Métier
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Practice Standard for SchedulingMission

• The Practice Standard for Scheduling will
• Provide guidelines on developing, using and
  understanding project schedules.
• Remain consistent with the PMBOK Guide,
  expanding its concepts and techniques related to
  Scheduling.
• Describe the processes related to Scheduling that
  are generally recognized as good practice for
  most projects most of the time.
• Include information that is broadly accepted
  within the project management community.

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Practice Standard for SchedulingOrganizational
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Practice Standard for SchedulingCharter

• The expected publication date for the Standard
  produced by
• PS-Scheduling is March 2006
• The team will provide the following interim
  deliverables
• Detailed Project Plan
• Outline of the Standard
• Pre-exposure Draft of the Standard
• Exposure Draft of the Standard
• Final Draft of the Standard incorporating
  agreed-to Exposure Draft comments
• Documents showing disposition of all Exposure
  Draft comments
• Publicity articles for PMI publications
• Additional deliverables may be identified during
  project
• planning, and should be reflected in the Project
  Schedule.

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Practice Standard for SchedulingMethodology

• Organize - Build foundation processes to
  generate the standard
• Audit Ensure all intra-team comments are
  tracked
• Develop Piecemeal ground up
• Components of a schedule
• Component attributes, behaviors, and best
  practices
• Best practices for scheduling (MPMOTT)
• Appendices
• Integration
• Exposure

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Practice Standard for SchedulingHigh level
schedule
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Practice Standard for SchedulingHigh level
schedule
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Practice Standard for SchedulingSuccess to date

• Finalized process document
• Approved draft glossary
• Developed and approved style guide
• Developed a web based comment tracking system
• Developed template system for component
  development
• Identified and adjudicated through team a draft
  component list
• Initial committee work underway
• Developed a draft document outline
• Approved an initial schedule

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Draft Document Outline

• Preface
• Intended audience
• Document organization
• Introduction
• Overview
• Purpose
• Applicability
• Why use a schedule?
• What is a schedule?
• The schedule as a model
• Components of a Schedule
• Component - NAME
• Definition
• Behaviors
• Attributes
• Recommended best practice
• Scheduling Best Practices (most projects most of
  the time)
• Properties of a Good Schedule

Appendices Appendix A Standards Setting
Process Appendix B Evolution of the
standard Appendix C Contributors and
Reviewers Appendix D Guidelines for a PMI
Practice Standard Industry Specific best
practices and examples Future directions and
trends XML Schema References Glossary Index
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Practice Standard for SchedulingQA