Table of Contents
Objectives for the
Reader.......................................................................................................................... 7
Common Language.............................................................................................................................................. 8
Project.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Impact / Purpose – Why
are we doing the Project?............................................................................................................................................................. 8
Outputs / Deliverables
– What the Project is to Accomplish............................................................................................................................................. 8
Activities -- How the
project will be done................................................................................................................................................................................ 9
Design and Plan the
Project.................................................................................................................... 11
Creating the Activities
List....................................................................................................................... 12
The Case Study –
Background.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 12
Work-Breakdown
Structure – (WBS)................................................................................................................................................................................ 14
Outline or WBS numbers...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
Exercise 1– Creating a Work breakdown Structure........................................................................................................................................................ 17
Milestones................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 18
Exercise 2 – Inserting Milestones........................................................................................................................................................................................ 21
Logical Sequence of
Events (The PERT Chart).............................................................................. 22
Exercise 3 – Creating a logical Sequence of
activities..................................................................................................................................................... 28
Exercise 4 – Record the Predecessors or
Controlling tasks.......................................................................................................................................... 32
Estimating Durations
& Assigning Resources............................................................................... 33
Setting up the Duration
and Calendar parameters............................................................................................................................................................ 36
Estimating durations
& assigning resources in the case study..................................................................................................................................... 38
Exercise 4 – Estimating Durations & Assigning
resources........................................................................................................................................... 42
Setting Constraints....................................................................................................................................... 43
Setting Constraints on
the “Relax Project”....................................................................................................................................................................... 44
Exercise 5 – Setting Constraints.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 45
Calculating Start and Finish dates for Activities.................................................................... 46
Calculating Activity
Dates & Times for the “Relax Project”......................................................................................................................................... 47
Exercise 6 – Calculating Start & Finish Dates.................................................................................................................................................................. 52
The Gantt Chart................................................................................................................................................ 53
Exercise 7 – Creating a Gantt Chart.................................................................................................................................................................................... 56
Overallocations of
Resources............................................................................................................. 57
Solving Overallocations.......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 60
The “Relax Project”
overallocations.................................................................................................................................................................................... 61
Exercise 8 – Solving Resource Overallocations................................................................................................................................................................ 68
Costing the Project....................................................................................................................................... 69
Overview..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 69
Cost Components...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 70
Exercise 9 -- Planning costs................................................................................................................................................................................................... 72
Tracking the Project.................................................................................................................................... 73
Process Review................................................................................................................................................. 74
Summary.................................................................................................................................................................. 75
APPENDIX A.............................................................................................................................................................. 76
The Relax Project..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 78
The Spec Home......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 80
The Mouse Project................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 82
The Biggest BBQ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 84
Appendix B.............................................................................................................................................................. 86
Parameters and
Calendars..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 90
Constraint Table....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 92
1998 Calendar.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 93