Practice Standard for SchedulingProject Manager’s Meeting Status

April 28, 2004

Project Manager – Douglas Clark, CEO of Métier

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Practice Standard for SchedulingMission

The Practice Standard for Scheduling will:

• Provide guidelines on developing, using and understanding project schedules.

• Remain consistent with the PMBOK® Guide, expanding its concepts and techniques related to Scheduling.

• Describe the processes related to Scheduling that are generally recognized as good practice for most projects most of the time.

• Include information that is broadly accepted within the project management community.

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Practice Standard for SchedulingCharter

The expected publication date for the Standard produced by PS-Scheduling is: March 2006

The team will provide the following interim deliverables:• Detailed Project Plan• Outline of the Standard• Pre-exposure Draft of the Standard• Exposure Draft of the Standard• Final Draft of the Standard incorporating agreed-to Exposure

Draft comments• Documents showing disposition of all Exposure Draft

comments• Publicity articles for PMI publications

Additional deliverables may be identified during project planning, and should be reflected in the Project Schedule.

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Practice Standard for SchedulingMethodology

• Organize - Build foundation processes to generate the standard

• Audit – Ensure all intra-team comments are tracked

• Develop Piecemeal – ground up

• Components of a schedule

• Component attributes, behaviors, and best practices

• Best practices for scheduling (MPMOTT)

• Appendices

• Integration

• Exposure

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Practice Standard for SchedulingHigh level schedule

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Practice Standard for SchedulingHigh level schedule

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Practice Standard for SchedulingSuccess to date

• Finalized process document

• Approved draft glossary

• Developed and approved style guide

• Developed a web based comment tracking system

• Developed template system for component development

• Identified and adjudicated through team a draft component list

• Initial committee work underway

• Developed a draft document outline

• Approved an initial schedule

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Draft Document Outline

PrefaceIntended audienceDocument organizationIntroduction

OverviewPurposeApplicabilityWhy use a schedule?What is a schedule?The schedule as a model

Components of a ScheduleComponent - NAME

DefinitionBehaviorsAttributesRecommended best practice

Scheduling Best Practices (most projects most of the time)Properties of a Good Schedule

AppendicesAppendix A – Standards Setting ProcessAppendix B – Evolution of the standardAppendix C – Contributors and ReviewersAppendix D – Guidelines for a PMI Practice StandardIndustry Specific best practices and examplesFuture directions and trendsXML SchemaReferencesGlossaryIndex

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Practice Standard for SchedulingQ&A