Chapter 8
Developing the Project Plan
In This Chapter
- Creating the project schedule
- Using the Program Evaluation and Review Technique
- Employing the Critical Path Method
- Displaying and reporting the project schedule
- Resource leveling
- Forming a quality plan
The main focus of this chapter is the creation of the project schedule, which is the next-to-the-last document you'll create in the overall project plan. Creating the budget is the last task you'll do in the Planning process, and I'll cover that in Chapters 9, “Budgeting 101.”
In this chapter, you'll look at some methods for determining accurate project scheduling estimates and discover the critical path for the project. You'll then look at some examples of project schedules and ways to ...
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