Developing the project schedule

Let's take a look at the project schedule management road you have traveled thus far:

• First, you created an activity list and milestones by decomposing the workpackages in your WBS.
• Then, you sequenced activities based on their dependencies and relationships.
• After that, you estimated your resources and durations, taking into consideration dates and effort, lead and lag time, and the estimates for the duration of your activities.
• You will also be keeping a close eye on your schedule for risk, and also attempt to put some time and/or money in reserves for those risks that can be overcome with time or money.
• Now, we have a schedule. What we don't have is a finish date, a total duration, and the answer to the question of how long the project will take. That brings us to schedule creation. There are several techniques we will go through, and I'm sure you have noticed that time management takes a lot of time to review...