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10 Steps to Creating Your Project Schedule
September 29, 2008 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: Project Management Best Practices, Scheduling
10 Steps to Creating Your Project Schedule (#1 in the series Creating and Managing a Project Schedule)
By John Filicetti
In order to create your Project Schedule, you have to follow these steps:
- Identify major tasks and milestones to complete the project
- Identify detail tasks, in chronological order, that are required to achieve each major task
- Work collaboratively with the planning project team to estimate each task’s duration and start & end dates
- Identify tasks that are dependent on the completion of other tasks
- Assign resources to each task
- Build a complete project schedule using a scheduling tool
- Estimate overall project budget
- Document any assumptions in the schedule
- Facilitate the approval of the schedule by the sponsor & other key stakeholders
- Remember when distributing a schedule in Microsoft Project, not everyone has the software, so converting it to Excel or printing with Adobe Acrobat Distiller may be necessary.
John F. Filicetti, PMP, MBA
John Filicetti is a Sr. Sales Engineer/PM-PMO-PPM Consultant with a great depth of experience and expertise in enterprise project management, project management methodologies, Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Project Management Offices (PMOs), Governance, process consulting, and business management. John has directed and managed project management teams, created and implemented methodologies and practices, provided project management consulting, created and directed PMOs, and created consulting and professional services in such areas as project portfolio management, Governance, business process re-engineering, network systems integration, application development, infrastructure, and complex environments. John has enjoyed many years as PMO Director for large corporations in the Seattle area and leads the PMO Roundtable discussion group and forum.
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