From the course: Project Management Foundations: Schedules
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Schedules within the project life cycle - Microsoft Project Tutorial
From the course: Project Management Foundations: Schedules
Schedules within the project life cycle
- [Instructor] Managing a project schedule isn't a once and done deal. It's something you work on throughout most of the project. In PMI's Project Management Book of Knowledge, called PMBOK short, schedule related work is part of the project schedule management knowledge area. That's in the PMBOK sixth edition. In the fifth edition, it was called time management. Let's walk through the life cycle of a project management schedule. First you plan how you're going to schedule the project. For example, what scheduling tool will you use? Are you going to measure progress in hours, days or weeks? Depending on your project, this plan can be formal and detailed, informal and high-level, or somewhere in between. Next you define project activities, also called tasks. Activities represent the work that has to be done to deliver the project's results. This activity definition starts when you define your project scope. Part of the…
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