Project Schedule Management Exam

Project Schedule Management Exam

The list of content for the Project Schedule Management exam according to the PMI approach:

1. Plan Schedule Management

   – Establishing policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule.

   – Developing a Schedule Management Plan.

2. Define Activities

   – Identifying specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables.

   – Documenting detailed steps required to complete project work.

3. Sequence Activities

   – Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities.

   – Creating a project schedule network diagram.

   – Determining dependencies and sequencing of activities.

4. Estimate Activity Durations

   – Estimating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities.

   – Using tools and techniques such as expert judgment, analogous estimating, parametric estimating, and three-point estimating.

5. Develop Schedule

   – Analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements, and schedule constraints to create the project schedule.

   – Using critical path method, critical chain method, resource optimization techniques, and schedule compression techniques.

   – Developing a project schedule baseline.

6. Control Schedule

   – Monitoring the status of project activities to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline.

   – Using performance reviews, variance analysis, and project management software.

   – Implementing corrective actions to address schedule variances.

7. Schedule Network Diagrams

   – Creating visual representations of the project’s activities and their interdependencies.

   – Tools: Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM), Arrow Diagramming Method (ADM).

8. Critical Path Method (CPM)

   – Identifying the longest path through the project, which determines the shortest possible project duration.

   – Calculating early start, early finish, late start, and late finish dates for activities.

9. Critical Chain Method

   – Managing project schedule by focusing on resource availability.

   – Buffer management to account for uncertainties.

10. Resource Optimization Techniques

    – Adjusting the schedule to optimize the use of resources.

    – Techniques: Resource leveling, resource smoothing.

11. Schedule Compression Techniques

    – Shortening the project schedule without changing the project scope.

    – Techniques: Crashing, fast tracking.

12. Agile Scheduling

    – Applying iterative scheduling techniques.

    – Using backlogs, sprint planning, and timeboxing for schedule management in Agile projects.