Software Engineering, 10th Edition

23.3 Project scheduling

Project scheduling is the process of deciding how the work in a project will be organized as separate tasks, and when and how these tasks will be executed. You estimate the calendar time needed to complete each task and the effort required, and you suggest who will work on the tasks that have been identified. You also have to estimate the hardware and software resources that are needed to complete each task. For example, if you are developing an embedded system, you have to estimate the time that you need on specialized hardware and the costs of running a system simulator. In terms of the planning stages that I introduced in the introduction of this chapter, an initial project schedule is usually created during the project ...