1: Project Scope and Schedule Management Overview
• Project Scope Management Overview
• Project Scope Mgt. Processes and Key Outputs
• New Practices and Theories
• Project Schedule Management Overview
• Project Schedule Mgt. Processes and Key Outputs
• New Practices and Theories
• Case Study Selection
• Requirements, Scope, and Negotiations
2: Planning Processes
• Planning Processes Overview
• Plan Scope Management
1. The Scope Management Plan
2. The Requirements Management Plan
• Plan Schedule Management
1. The Schedule Management Plan
• Collect Requirements
1. Types of Requirements
2. Effective Product/Solution Requirements
3. Other Stakeholders and Requirements
4. Collect Requirements Techniques
5. Voice of the Customer
6. Requirements Traceability Matrix
• Define Scope
1. Project Scope Statement Sections
2. Create a Project Scope Statement
• Create WBS
1. WBS by Deliverable
2. WBS by Phase
3. When to Subdivide a Work Package Further
4. Effective WBSs
5. General Process for Creating the WBS
6. Create a WBS
• Define Activities
1. Practical Considerations for Defining Activities
2. Activities and Steps
3. Milestones
4. Create Activities and Milestones
• Sequence Activities
1. Create a Network Diagram
• Estimate Activity Resources
1. Resource Breakdown Structure
2. Estimate Activity Resources
3. Assign Resources to Activities
• Estimate Activity Durations
1. Expert Judgment
2. Ratio Estimating
3. Analogous Estimating
4. Parametric Estimating
5. Forecasting
6. Three Point Estimating and PERT Estimating
7. Reserves
8. Estimate Activity Durations
• Develop Schedule
1. Critical Path
2. Resource Optimization – Resource Leveling
3. Resource Optimization – Resource Smoothing
4. Resolve Overallocations
5. Critical Chain
6. Schedule Compression Techniques
3: Monitoring and Controlling Processes
• Validate Scope
1. Verify Scope Best Practices
2. Create a Scope Validation Form
• Control Scope
1. Control Scope Best Practices
2. Change Control Stakeholders
3. Determine Change Control Stakeholders
4. Scope Change Control Process
5. Change Request Form
• Control Schedule
1. Control Schedule Best Practices