MIS 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Project, Work Breakdown Structure

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The process of: defining project activities determining their sequence estimating their duration. Scheduling activities are part of project time management. Activities project tasks: any activity that will take time and resources. Dependencies: how one task depends on another to start or finish, ex. Who has to put in something in order to start on something. Requires: identification of any project technical constraints, safety or efficiency considerations. Making it as efficient as possibly: environmental politics, availability of required resources, completion of prerequisite processes. Scheduling process steps: creating a work breakdown structure (wbs) to identify required project components, defining the activities needed to complete each of these components, determining the most efficient sequencing order of these components. Schedule developed during initiation or planning stage. Followed and updated during the execution stage. Used for project tracking during control stage. External reaction to competitor actions: new technologies become available, reaction to unforeseen events.

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