PROCESS AND TIME SCHEDULE¶

Scheduling is a valuable tool for project planning in the early stages and enables alternative schedules and solutions to be analysed, taking into account deadlines, costs and resources. It supports the project planners and coordinators in clarifying critical interfaces between the individual project parts at an early stage. The basis is project structuring. Once the process sequences have been defined and times assigned to the tasks to be carried out, the process plan becomes the schedule for the project. The schedule provides targets and provides ongoing information on the current status of the project through the cyclical recording of feedback. This provides you and your team with a platform for monitoring and controlling deadlines, resources, costs and activities.

Individual steps¶

The duration of each work package (WP) and the interdependencies between the WPs are used for process and time scheduling [16]. If necessary, the planner divides the work packages into even smaller activities.

Step 1
Place the WPs in sequence and link the individual WPs.

Step 2
Has any WP been forgotten? If necessary, define the missing WPs and include them (in the WBS and, after costing, in the cost breakdown structure and process schedule).

Step 3
Include the WP duration in the process schedule.

Step 4
Make forward and backward pass calculations.

Step 5
Calculate free float and determine the critical path.

Step 6
Schedule the WP.

Step 7
Identify any problems and resolve them (e.g. by adapting resources or objectives at deadline and/ or quality level).

Procedures after preparing the process and time schedules
Now it's time to prepare the risk analysis.