Key concepts for schedule management
To ensure your schedule is both flexible and accurate, the team needs to determine both the life cycle and the practices to maintain the schedule after its creation. Will the team choose a critical path and run the project in a predictive fashion, or will a more Agile approach be a better choice? Either way, there will be a model the team can follow to plot out the schedule activities, as well as maintain the schedule or update it as needed throughout the project.
Trends and emerging best practices in scheduling
Because a long-term scope is challenging to determine in the earlier stages of planning, the team might benefit from a more flexible approach, such as iterative scheduling using a backlog. User stories are created, and the team may choose to use a Kanban or pull system approach. Essentially, the next piece of work in the queue is in the backlog and when the team is ready to work on the user story or stories, they will pull that work...
