Schedule development 91R-16

Steps involved

1. Collect inputs required
   1. Scheduling requirements
   2. Plan for schedule development and monitoring
   3. Initial schedule model
   4. Historical records
   5. Technical documents
   6. WBS, Work packages and execution strategy
   7. Estimated costs
   8. Budgeted resources
   9. Resource planning
   10. Constructablity analysis
   11. Value analysis and engineering
   12. Risk analysis and management
   13. Procurement planning
   14. Schedule submittals
2. Select time unit – Weeks, days or hours
3. Establish the schedule outline / Schedule structure
4. Enter WBS and coding structures
5. Define activity coding structure
6. Define and assign project and resource calendars
7. Add activities and assign activity attributes
8. Choose scheduling options – Configuration of the scheduling tool to incorporate end of day, beginning of the day settings
9. Generate the computerized logic network
   1. Physical relationship (FS, FF, SS, SF)
   2. Safety relationship – When two activities happen in parallel, there can be safety hazards
   3. Resource relationship – Resource constraints have an impact on sequencing activities
   4. Preferential relationship – Discretion of the planning team
10. Cost and resource load the schedule
11. Activity duration types
    1. Fixed duration and units
    2. Fixed duration and units / time
    3. Fixed units / time
    4. Fixed units
12. Schedule review
13. Optimize the schedule
    1. What if scenario analysis
    2. Schedule risk analysis resulting in optimistic, pessimistic and most likely durations
    3. Decision tree analysis
    4. Montecarlo analysis
14. Approve the project schedule
15. Establish schedule control basis
16. Communicate the schedule
17. Roles and responsibilities