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Project Management Orientation

How to Create a Schedule from a Precedence Diagram

The following diagram indicates that there are numerous inputs to the project schedule in addition to the precedence diagram.

Other areas you need to consider include:

As the project manager, you first determine what must be done to complete each task; this means identifying the necessary roles and the needed skills.  Then you determine who has the required skills and assign them to the appropriate roles.  The people assigned must have the skills necessary to fulfill these roles.  If they do not, you might need to add more people or change the schedule to allow time for training.
    
The challenge is to coordinate all of these inputs to develop a schedule that satisfies all the stakeholders.

You must also ensure that the assigned individuals are available when required.  Consider vacation and holiday time, nonproject work, and education and training time.  Because of these factors, you might need to reschedule around nonavailable time, change the utilization, change the duration, add resources, or negotiate for new resources to be assigned to the project.
A graphic showing the inputs to the schedule:  Required Roles, Staff Skills, Staff Availability, Precedence Diagram, Task Estimate, Project Schedule, and Match.
1: Getting Started
2: Define the Project Team
3: Team Management
4: Identify and Validate Requirements
5: Create Decomposition Structures
6: Risk Management
7: Project Estimates
8: Project Schedules
9: Change Management
10: Project Control and Execution
Defining the Project
11: Project Management Review
12: Project Closeout
13: Project Management Tool Suite
14: Self-Assessment and Final Exam
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