Chapter 2

Project Schedule Management

This part discusses project schedule management (project time management)—one of the core three of project management.Schedule management is an important part of any project.Project schedule management refers to a component of overall project management in which a timeline is analyzed and developed for the completion of a project or deliverable.It consists of six different components or steps shown in Fig 2-1.

Fig 2-1 Six Different Components or Steps of Project Schedule Management

Source:Date compilation by the author according to PMBOK Guide (2008).

The project time management process is dynamic and may require input from several different teams in order to integrate the various interdependent component parts of the project to achieve the project deliverables on time.The processes are recurrent within each work package of the project and occur at least once within the project as a whole.The output from this integrated team effort is called schedule management plan which is a subset of the overall project management plan.