February 2012
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
21h
English
book
Information Technology Project Management: Providing Measurable Organizational Value, Fourth Edition
by Jack T. Marchewka
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CHAPTER 7
The Project Schedule and Budget
CHAPTER OVERVIEW
Chapter 7 focuses on developing the project schedule and budget and introduces a number of project management tools for developing the project plan. After studying this chapter, you should understand and be able to:
- Describe the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) area called project cost management.
- Develop a Gantt chart.
- Develop a project network diagram using a technique called activity on the node (AON) technique.
- Identify a project's critical path and explain why it must be controlled and managed.
- Develop a PERT diagram.
- Describe the concept of precedence diagramming and identify finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish, and start-to-finish activity relationships.
- Describe the concept of critical chain project management (CCPM).
- Describe the various types of costs that make up the project's budget.
- Define what is meant by the baseline project plan.
INTRODUCTION
The last several chapters have been leading up to the development of the project schedule and budget. Chapter 3 introduced the project planning framework (see Figure 7.1). To support this framework, subsequent chapters introduced several Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) areas, including project integration management, human resources management, project scope management, and project time management. In this chapter, you will ...
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