Mastering Project Time Management, Cost Control, and Quality Management: Proven Methods for Controlling the Three Elements that Define Project Deliverables

3. Project Activity Sequencing

3.1 Introduction

As the project manager evaluates a project to determine what type of project structure of activities will be used, information needs to be analyzed to determine the requirements of each activity throughout the project life cycle. As you have seen in Chapters 1 and 2, “Planning Schedule Management” and “Project Activity Requirements,” respectively, it is critical that the project manager has accurate and reliable information for each work activity because this will be used during the development of cost estimating and the creation of a project schedule. The scheduling of work activities forms the foundation of all work to be performed to complete the proposed project deliverable.

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