From the course: Project Management Foundations: Schedules

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Develop a schedule management plan

Develop a schedule management plan

- [Instructor] You might think planning how you schedule a project is excessive. A schedule management plan simply means that you document the scheduling choices you make for your project. A schedule management plan can be formal or informal depending on the needs of your project. The first choice in a scheduling plan is the method to use, such as critical path method or critical chain. In the Agile world, you might choose Scrum or Kanban. In fact, your organization may already have one or more approved methods you can choose from. The example in this course is best suited to the critical path method, so we'll use that approach. Once you choose the scheduling method, you can choose the scheduling tool that supports your selected method, such as Primavera, Microsoft Project and so on. Additional choices you document in your scheduling plan are how accurate you want to be and how you'll measure progress. Do you want your…

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