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Chapter 9: Time
Chapter 9: Time
Agenda
• What is Time Management?
• What are the Processes?
Project Time Management
• Processes required to ensure timely completion of the project
Project Time Management
Consists of the following processes according to PMBOK (5th Edition):
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Example
Months
Resources
Outputs
¨ Resource requirements
Ref: PMBOK
Estimating Resources : Top Down
• A rule of thumb to estimate the number of resources
• Calculating Team Size (FTE)
Full Time Equivalent resources on the project
• Take the Square Root of Effort
• Square Root of 40 person-months
= 6.5 people
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Graduation
Party Project
Conclusion
• In this chapter we introduced key processes leading to the creation of
the schedule.
• Control Schedule is not a planning activity.
• We will introduce it when we cover project monitoring and control.