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TOOLS FOR
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
PHASES OF PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
PLANNING
SCHEDULING
CONTROLLING
Importance of Planning
PLANNING
Setting the objectives of the project and
the assumptions to be made.
SWOT Analysis.
Development of Work Breakdown
Structure (W.B.S.)
Estimating the activity durations, their
resources requirements and costs.
Establishing the interdependence
relationships between the activities.
SCHEDULING
Start and finish times for each activity
Critical path on which the activities require
special attention
Slack and float for the non-critical paths.
CONTROLLING
Make periodical progress reports.
Reviewing the progress.
Analysing the status of the project.
Management decisions regarding
updating, crashing and resource allocation
PATH:
An unbroken chain of activities
connecting the initial event to some other
event is called a path.
NETWORK:
It is graphical representation of logically
and sequentially connected arrows and
nodes representing activities and events
of a project. Networks are also called
arrow diagrams.
NETWORK CONSTRUCTION
Firstly the project is split into activities.
Start and end events of the project are then
decided.
After deciding the precedence order, the
activities are put in a logical sequence by
using graphical notations.
: (to + 4tm+tp) / 6
Standard deviation,
: ( tp-to)/6
2
Varience,(V)
(tp-to/6)
CRITICAL PATH
The path which takes place the maximum
of time is called the critical path and
activities on the critical path are called
critical activities.
The Critical path calculation consists of:
Forward Pass Calculations &
Backward Pass Calculations.
A
1
0/0
is
2
10
10/10
B
25
20
F 48/9
10 3
7
G
15 53/93
4
Activity
38/38
58/93
D
60
3
35/35
58/93
Event
I
9
98/98
10
10
J
11
2
108/108
110/110