Schedule Development Planning You Will Need To U
At the next meeting, you and the team had a very productive
discussion on your findings related to the identification of all of the
project activities that must happen to start and finish your project.
You even took a step further in working with your team members to
estimate resources and cost for each of the activities. Everyone feels
that it is time to present your findings to Sam and Gloria and provide
them with a baseline estimate of how long this project will most likely
cost in terms of time and dollars.
“Thanks for educating us on the schedule development planning,” says
Jerry to you. “We have some great information here, but I think it is
too much detail to present to Sam and Gloria.”
“I agree,” says Melissa. “Does anyone have any ideas on how best to present this information?”
“We should go ahead and plug this information into a project schedule
that both Sam and Gloria know and will appreciate. We ought to
establish a project baseline at this time. We should define the tasks,
start and finish dates, durations, predecessors (sequence of
activities), resource names, and possibly cost,” says Sara.
“The project schedule should account for all of the activities that
must happen. It must not be less than 30–50 activities and
subactivities,” you say.
“Oh, that’s great!” says Jim. “Do you think you can prepare it for the team by next week?”
Assignment
Tips: Start by looking at the WBS
activities that you defined last week. Think about how you could
decompose your work packages into activities and subactivities to
complete this coffee house project. You should use all of the project
artifacts (deliverables) you produced so far and the given project
scenario to identify all of the activities that are needed.
You should be able to come up with 50–100 activities easily for your schedule baseline. Once those activities have been identified, finish your schedule by plugging in start and finish dates, durations, predecessor relationships, and adding cost and resource names. Resource names and cost can be added in the main summary page or directly in the resource sheet. Your project name must go in the first row, and all other activates should be indented under it. You should link all activities to summary tasks and subactivities to the main activity. You may make assumptions for any of this work, and estimates do not need to be real.