30 March 2012

Project Management: Schedule (Definitions)

"The planned dates for performing activities and the planned dates for meeting milestones." (Timothy J  Kloppenborg et al, "Project Leadership", 2003)

"(1) A document showing the tasks for a project and specific calendar dates when each task will be started and completed. (2) The total time elapsed to build a product (calendar days)." (Richard D Stutzke, "Estimating Software-Intensive Systems: Projects, Products, and Processes", 2005)

"The set of project milestones and their planned dates of accomplishment. The actual dates of accomplishment are also usually recorded as the project proceeds." (Richard D Stutzke, "Estimating Software-Intensive Systems: Projects, Products, and Processes", 2005)

"The schedule contains all the activities that need to be performed, including their sequence and interdependencies, milestones, duration, estimated effort, start and end dates, as well as resource assignment. In addition, it should detail the critical path or paths." (Lars Dittmann et al, "Automotive SPICE in Practice", 2008)

"An ordered set of tasks characterized by duration and loading onto resources. For project management, this is the plan that specifies which people should perform what tasks when. For a concurrent system, this is a statement of what tasks should be executed by the scheduler and when." (Bruce P Douglass, "Real-Time Agility", 2009)

"The planned dates for performing schedule activities and the planned dates for meeting schedule milestones." (Project Management Institute, "Practice Standard for Project Estimating", 2010)

"The overall timeline for a project including task dates, durations, relationships, costs, and resource assignments." (Bonnie Biafore, "Successful Project Management: Applying Best Practices and Real-World Techniques with Microsoft Project", 2011)

"The planned dates for performing schedule activities and the planned dates for meeting schedule milestones." (Cynthia Stackpole, "PMP® Certification All-in-One For Dummies", 2011)

"An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates, durations, milestones, and resources." (For Dummies, "PMP Certification All-in-One For Dummies" 2nd Ed., 2013)

"A listing of project tasks, subtasks, and estimated completion times." (Robert F Smallwood, "Information Governance: Concepts, Strategies, and Best Practices", 2014)

"Time plan for a project or process. Note: on a construction project this is usually referred to as a 'project programme'. The construction industry tends to refer to programmes rather than schedules. Indeed the term schedule tends to mean a schedule of items in tabular form, e.g. door schedule, ironmongery schedule, etc." (Chartered Institute of Building, "Code of Practice for Project Management for Construction and Development" 5th Ed., 2014)

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