PROJECT

SCHEDULING
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WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE

A work breakdown structure (WBS) is a key project deliverable
that organizes the team's work into manageable sections. The
Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) defines the
work breakdown structure as a "deliverable oriented
hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the
project team." The work breakdown structure visually defines
the scope into manageable chunks that a project team can
understand, as each level of the work breakdown structure
provides further definition and detail.
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WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE

The WBS is a graphical
tool—perhaps the most
foundational tool in the
project planning process. It
organizes all of the project
work by placing elements
of work into logical
groupings.
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WORK BREAKDOWN
STRUCTURE
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WORK BREAKDOWN
STRUCTURE
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GANTT CHART
▫ a Gantt chart is a visual view of tasks scheduled over time. Gantt
charts are used for planning projects of all sizes and they are a
useful way of showing what work is scheduled to be done on a
specific day.
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MS PROJECT
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PERT/CPM
▫ ACTIVITY – IS THE WORK
OPERATIONS REQUIRED TO
COMPLETE THE TASK.
▫ EVENTS – IS A POINT IN TIME
SIGNIFYING THE BEGINNING OR
END OF ONE OR MORE ACTIVITIES.
▫ DUMMY ACTIVITY – IS AN ARROW
ON A NETWORK SWHOWING THE
DEPENDENT RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN TWO ACTIVITIES.
▫ DURATION – IS THE TIME IT TAKES
AN ACTIVITY TO FINISHED.
▫ PATH – A SEQUENCE OF ACTIVITIES
THAT LEADS FROM STARTING
NODE TO THE FINISHED NODE
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DEFINITIONS
▫ CRITICAL PATH – IS THE LONGEST ROUTE IN THE NETWORK OF
ACTIVITIES.
▫ EARLY START (ES) – EARLIEST ANY ACTIVITY CAN START
▫ EARLY FINISH (EF) - EARLIEST ANY ACTIVITY CAN FINISH
▫ LATE START (LS) – LATEST TIME THE ACTIVITY CAN START AND NOT
DELAY THE PROJECT
▫ LATE FINISH (LF) - LATEST TIME THE ACTIVITY CAN FINISH AND NOT
DELAY THE PROJECT