Time Management Planning
Create a project schedule, assign tasks and manage the projects schedule by re-assigning resources, taking corrective actions, resolving any issues that arise, and providing the necessary supports to ensure schedule integrity.
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for Time Management Planning at each level of maturity.
- 2Basic
- Practices
- Focus on sizing and estimation to help with time management of projects.
- Provide estimation training on basic approaches like three-point estimation, analogous estimates, expert judgement, or other estimation methods, as appropriate.
- Outcome
- Sizing and estimation improves and provide a basis for project timelines.
- Metrics
- Initial baseline estimates to actuals ratios for tasks and projects.
- Project schedule variance metrics.
- 3Intermediate
- Practice
- Provide training on Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), more advanced sizing and estimation techniques like Delphi and/or regression techniques like the Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO), task sequencing (using concepts like finish to start, start to start, finish to finish, and start to finish relationships), resource and skills structure breakdowns.
- Outcome
- Project schedules and time estimates are improving and more projects are being delivered within acceptable time variances.
- Metrics
- Initial baseline estimates to actuals ratios for tasks and projects.
- Project schedule variance metrics.
- 4Advanced
- Practice
- Provide training and support for project critical path management and analysis and on advanced techniques like compression using crashing and/or fast-tracking approaches.
- Outcome
- Project schedules are aggressive and competitive.
- Metrics
- Initial baseline estimates to actuals ratios for tasks and projects.
- Project schedule variance metrics.
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- Provide feedback to estimators and develop a programme of continuous improvement for project time management that leverages best-known industry practice, research findings, and the advice of professional associations and vendors.
- Outcome
- Estimators tend to auto-correct when they are supplied with feedback and the programme of continuous improvement sustains competitive advantage in project time-management.
- Metrics
- Initial baseline estimates to actuals ratios for tasks and projects.
- Project schedule variance metrics.