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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

How to determine a realistic schedule for a project?

prerequisites before task scheduling 
  • Requirements gathered to the level just enough for estimating
  • Determine Risks, Constrains
  • Availability of resources
  • Make sure the estimates are done by your team and work package is estimaetd by the person who is going to do the real work.
Steps to follow: 
  1. Create a work breakdown structure (WBS). I prefer to use either Featurewise categorization or use Product life cycle categorization. (Dont try to simulate PMI process model in the WBS)
  2. Create a Ghant Chart or use MSProject
  3. Estimate Work-packages.
  4. Sequence the activities (Network Diagram) or User the MsProject Ghant chart itself.
  5. Run through Forward Pass , Backward pass: You can use either float formula to compute float. Late Finish - Early Finish = 14 - 9 :::  5, or Late Start - Early Start'" 8 - 3 = 5.
  6. Determine Float, Total Float
  7. Resource Allocation
  8. Level Resources
 IT Project Estimation: A Practical Guide to the Costing of Software
IT Project Estimation: A Practical Guide to the Costing of Software

4 comments:

Shamly said...

It would be nice if you can explain these steps in a bit more detail.

For e.g. Resource Allocation.
Correct me if i am wrong, but there are many steps involved in resource allocation which affect the schedule of a project.

Also as a new topic, can you please discuss about the difficulties in maintaining the schedule approved at the beginning of a project.

Bond Reeves said...

Hey, Thanx for that.

I will try to come up with a simple but little bit of elaborated control schedule process.

Binita shrestha said...

this is not enough explanation..please do elaborate more on this steps.

binita said...

this is not enough . please do elaborate more on this steps.

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