Project Management for IT-Related Projects, 3rd Edition

2 PROJECT PLANNING

LEARNING OUTCOMES

When you have completed this chapter you should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the following:

• project deliverables and intermediate products;

• work and product breakdowns;

• product definitions (including the identification of ‘derived from’ and ‘component of’ relationships between products);

• relationship between products and activities in a project;

• checkpoints and milestones;

• elapsed time and effort required for activities;

• activity networks (using the ‘activity on node’ notation);

• calculation of earliest and latest start and end dates of activities and the resulting float;

• identification and significance of critical paths;

• resource allocation, smoothing and levelling, including ...