Project Schedule Management includes the processes required to manage the timely completion of the project.

The Project Schedule Management processes are:  

  • Plan Schedule Management. The process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning,

  • developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule.  

  • Define Activities. The process of identifying and documenting the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables.  

  • Sequence Activities. The process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities.  

  • Estimate Activity Durations. The process of estimating the number of work periods needed

  • to complete individual activities with the estimated resources.  

  • Develop Schedule. The process of analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements,

  • and schedule constraints to create the project schedule model for project execution and monitoring and controlling.  

  • Control Schedule. The process of monitoring the status of the project to update the project

  • schedule and manage changes to the schedule baseline.  

Figure 6.1 provides an overview of the Project Schedule Management processes. 

Project scheduling provides a detailed plan that represents how and when the project will

deliver the products, services, and results defined in the project scope and serves as a tool for communication,

managing stakeholders’ expectations, and as a basis for performance reporting.  

Figure 6.2 provides a scheduling overview that shows how the scheduling method, scheduling tool,

and outputs from the Project Schedule Management processes interact to create a schedule model.