The Scheduling Of Project Management - 1045 Words

Hypothesis: The scheduling in project management is the discipline for stating how to complete a project within a certain timeframe, usually with defined stage, and with designated resources. The project schedule reflects all of the work associated with delivering the project on time. It shows how the work will progress over a period of time and takes into account factors such as limited resources and estimating uncertainty. Without a full and complete schedule, the project manager will be unable to communicate the complete effort, in terms of cost and resources, necessary to deliver the project. Scheduling: Scheduling in simple words would be defined as tabulating different tasks in a project in a proper sequence from start to end of the†¦show more content†¦Precedence: An activity must be preceded by another activity, i.e. the activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has been completed (e.g. a hole must be excavated before concrete is poured for a pier) Succession: an activity must be succeeded by another activity, i.e. the activity should be performed immediately after another activity (e.g. concrete must be immediately consolidated after it is poured, and it must be immediately finished after it is consolidated). Thus, an activity may have: †¢ No predecessor or successor. †¢ Only a predecessor. †¢ Only a successor. †¢ Both a predecessor and a successor. Event: Event is the start or end state of an activity. It doesn’t consume any resource. Each activity must have two events. Event may serve more than one activity at a time and is used to connect the activities. Event is a point in the time but not a passage of the time. It is denoted by a circle with a number or a dot with a number. Network: A structure that connects activities in a system that allows us to complete the project objective. To bring the project into network form, we can determine activities within it via a work breakdown structure (WBS). In general, the network format consists of two elements: Nodes: Junctures in the network (normally represented by a bubble, circle or other closed shape in a