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Software Project Management

Notes

Notes Scheduling aims to predict the future, and it has to consider many uncertainties and
assumptions. As a result, many people believe it’s more of an art than a science.
But whether you’re planning a team retreat, or leading a multimillion-dollar IT project,
the schedule is a critical part of your efforts. It identifies and organizes project tasks into a
sequence of events that create the project management plan.
A variety of inputs and tools are used in the scheduling process, all of which are designed
to help you understand your resources, your constraints, and your risks. The end result is
a plan that links events in the best way to complete the project efficiently.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
6. No matter the size or ……………….. of your project, the schedule is a key part of project
management.

7. ……………….., on the other hand, is not an exact process.
8. Project managers have a variety of tools to develop a ………………………...
9. The input for this process will be the project ……………………. statement.
10. The constraint of time needs to be considered when ……………………. activity resources.

11. Once all this information is collected and analyzed, it should be used to make a
…………………… of activity resources categorized by types, priorities and time.
12. A good way of avoiding this is to schedule projects in distinct stages, where final quality,
……………………. are delivered at the end of each stage.
13. ………………….. is inevitable, so you need to prepare for its impact.
14. The project manager should ……………………. the resource decomposition and project
activities templates.
15. Activities with …………………… dependencies refer to non-project factors that define
success of project-related activities.

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