Control Schedule is part of the “Time Management” Knowledge Area, and is part of the “Monitoring and Controlling” Process Group.
Control Schedule is the process of monitoring the status of project activities to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline to achieve the plan. The key benefit of this process is that it provides the means to recognize deviation from the plan and take corrective and preventive actions and thus minimize risk.
Updating the schedule model requires knowing the actual performance to date. Any change to the schedule baseline can only be approved through the Perform Integrated Change Control process (Section 4.5). Control
Schedule, as a component of the Perform Integrated Change Control process, is concerned with:
? Determining the current status of the project schedule,
? Influencing the factors that create schedule changes,
? Determining if the project schedule has changed, and ? Managing the actual changes as they occur.
If any agile approach is utilized, control schedule is concerned with: ? Determining the current status of the project schedule by comparing the total amount of work delivered
and accepted against the estimates of work completed for the elapsed time cycle, ? Conducting retrospective reviews (scheduled reviews to record lessons learned) for correcting processes
and improving, if required,
? Reprioritizing the remaining work plan (backlog), ? Determining the rate at which the deliverables are produced, validated, and accepted (velocity) in given
time per iteration (agreed work cycle duration, typically two weeks or one month),
? Determining that the project schedule has changed, and ? Managing the actual changes as they occur.
This definition was found in the PMBOK V5
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Control Schedule has:
Inputs:
- Organizational Process Assets
- Project calendars
- Project Management Plan
- Project schedule
- Schedule data
- Work performance data
Outputs:
- Change requests
- Organizational Process Assets updates
- Project documents updates
- Project Management Plan updates
- Schedule forecasts
- Work performance information
Tools and techniques:
- Leads and lags
- Modeling techniques
- Performance reviews
- Project management software
- Resource optimization techniques
- Schedule compression
- Scheduling tool
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