So schedule management is the schedule or timetable for a project program or portfolio.
It shows how the work will progress over a period of time and takes into account factors such as limited
resource and estimating uncertainty.
It's basically a project plan and you can use tools such as Microsoft Project which is part of the Microsoft
Office Suite in order to manage this.
So if Microsoft projects what you can do is add in all of the different work packages and you say what
date they need to start or when they need to be delivered.
So you'll actually put in how many days you expect that piece of work to be to take and then you put
in the dependencies amongst the different work packages and work out the delivery time and the date
that those pieces of work are going to be delivered.
You can also put in things like weekends work days and annual leave for members of staff and then what
they'll do is they'll take that into account and give you an ultimate date for when the project is expected
to be completed.
It also produces a gun chart which is a visual way of representing that information and it will show
you over a timeline where the different work packages are going to be starting on which ones have dependencies
on other work packages and when different work packages are going to be delivered so the schedule shows
the planned an actual progress of where you are now and where you want to be.
It's important that project managers tell the program manager of any scheduling problems coming up so
that the program manager can respond to it by ever changing the program plan or release and resource
in order to help that project manager meet the deadlines that they need to meet.
Scope management is about defining what the benefits of your program needs to deliver and what work
needs to be done in order to meet those benefits and what outputs the projects have to produce in order
to meet those benefits.
And it's important to look at the scope and the requirements because if the stakeholders or anyone else
wants more responsibility more requirements that means the scope is going to change which is inevitably
going to have an impact on on the schedule and any impacts on that really needs to go through or the
chartered needs need to be revised because it's going to take more time in order to produce more more
output so that same schedule management let's have a look at communication and reporting.