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• Project Scheduling
1 • Project Scheduling Objectives
• Phases of Project Scheduling
• PERT Diagrams & Dummy Activities
• CPM – Critical Path Method
Software Project Management
PROJECT SCHEDULING
It is part of project management within the Planning phase of
the Systems Development Life Cycle.
Project Scheduling: Allocate resources to execute all activities
in the project.
Originated by
H.L.Gantt in 1918
Advantages Limitations
- Gantt charts are quite commonly - Do not clearly indicate details regarding
used. They provide an easy graphical the progress of activities
representation of when activities - Do not give a clear indication of
(might) take place. interrelation ship between the separate 4
activities
Software Project Management
PROJECT SCHEDULING
Objectives:
Establish beginning, ending and duration of each activity in the
project.
Calculate overall completion time of the project given the
amount of usually limited resources.
Determine the critical path and its duration.
Determine the slack time for all non-critical activities and the
whole project.
Guide the allocation of resources other than time such
as staff and budget.
A F
1 2 5 6
Activity-on-arrow diagrams:
One single start and one single end node
Arrows represent activities
Nodes indicate beginning/end of activities
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Activity-on-arrow
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2 3
C
Tasks B & C share
the same start and
end node 12
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Task D has C
immediate Tasks B and C
predecessors of have the same
B and C start and
finish nodes 14
A B D
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A 3 0 3 5 8 5 No
B 4 0 4 0 4 0 Yes
C 7 4 11 4 11 0 Yes
D 5 3 8 8 13 5 No
E 2 11 13 11 13 0 Yes
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