Lecture # 7

ENGINEERING
PROJECT
MANAGEMENT

DR AFSHAN NASEEM

DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

NUST COLLEGE OF E&ME
 PROJECT
SCHEDULE
MANAGEMENT
IMPORTANCE
IMPORTANCE OF
OF PROJECT
PROJECT SCHEDULES
SCHEDULES
• Managers often cite delivering projects on time as
one of their biggest challenges
• Time has the least amount of flexibility; it passes no
matter what happens on a project
• Schedule issues are the main reason for conflicts on
projects, especially during the second half of
projects
PROJECT
PROJECTSCHEDULE
SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENTPROCESSES
PROCESSES

• Activity definition
• Activity sequencing
• Activity resource estimating
• Activity duration estimating
▫ Analogous estimating
▫ Parametric estimating
• Schedule development
• Schedule control
AGILE/ADAPTIVE
AGILE/ADAPTIVE ENVIRONMENTS
ENVIRONMENTS

• Short cycles
• Rapid feedback
• Iterative scheduling
• On-demand, pull based scheduling
 ACTIVITY
ACTIVITY DEFINITIO
DEFINITIONN
• Project schedules grow out of the basic documents
that initiate a project
▫ Project charter includes start and end dates and
budget information
▫ Scope statement and WBS help define what will
be done
• Tools & Techniques
▫ Expert Judgment
▫ Decomposition
▫ Rolling wave Planning
 ACTIVITY
ACTIVITY LIST
LISTAND
ANDATTRIBUTES
ATTRIBUTES
• An activity list is a tabulation of activities to be
included on a project schedule that includes:
▫ Activity name
▫ Activity identifier or number
▫ Brief description of the activity
• Activity attributes provide more information such
as predecessors, successors, logical relationships,
leads and lags, resource requirements, constraints,
imposed dates, and assumptions related to the
activity
 MILESTONES
MILESTONES
• A milestone is a significant event that normally has
no duration
▫ Not every deliverable or output created for a
project is a milestone
• It often takes several activities and a lot of work to
complete a milestone
• They are useful tools for setting schedule goals and
monitoring progress
• Examples: obtaining customer sign-off on key
documents or completion of specific products such
as software modules or the installation of new
hardware
 ACTIVITY
ACTIVITY SEQUENCING
SEQUENCING
• After defining project activities, the activity
sequencing is done
• A dependency or relationship is the sequencing of
project activities or tasks
▫ Mandatory dependencies
▫ Discretionary dependencies – preferred logic, soft
logic
• You must determine dependencies in order to use
critical path analysis
 LEADS
LEADS AND
AND LAGS
LAGS

• Leads – successor activity is advanced

• Lag – successor activity will be delayed
PROJECT
PROJECT SCHEDULE
SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT
TECHNIQUES
TECHNIQUES

 Gantt chart
 Critical Path Method
(CPM)
 Program Evaluation and
Review Technique
(PERT)
 GANTT
GANTT CHART
CHART
• Gantt charts provide a standard format for
displaying project schedule information by listing
project activities and their corresponding start and
finish dates in a calendar format
• Symbols include:
▫ Black diamonds: milestones
▫ Thick black bars: summary tasks
▫ Lighter horizontal bars: durations of tasks
▫ Arrows: dependencies between tasks
 A
A SIMPLE
SIMPLE GANTT
GANTT CHART
CHART
Time
J F M A M J J A S

Design
Prototype
Test
Revise
Production
GANTT
GANTT CHART
CHART FOR
FOR PROJECT
PROJECT X
X
ADDING
ADDING MILESTONES
MILESTONES TO
TO GANTT
GANTT CHARTS
CHARTS

Many people like to focus on meeting milestones,

especially for large projects
Milestones emphasize important events or
accomplishments on projects
Normally create milestone by entering tasks with a
zero duration, or you can mark any task as a
milestone
SAMPLE
SAMPLE TRACKING
TRACKING GANTT
GANTT CHART
CHART
CLASS ACTIVITY
 Assignment # 4 (a)
• Make a list of activities of your Project & their
relationship
• Construct a Gantt chart keeping in mind:
▫ No work will be done on weekends & official
holidays
▫ Calculate total no. of working days to finish this
project within time frame.
• Note: Submission date will be announced later.
Discussion