软件项目管理06_Activity_planning.pptVIP

Software Project Management Chapter Six Activity planning SPM (5e) Activity planning? The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009 * Scheduling ‘Time is nature’s way of stopping everything happening at once’ Having worked out a method of doing the project identified the tasks to be carried assessed the time needed to do each task need to allocate dates/times for the start and end of each activity SPM (5e) Activity planning? The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009 * Activity networks These help us to: Assess the feasibility of the planned project completion date Identify when resources will need to be deployed to activities Calculate when costs will be incurred This helps the co-ordination and motivation of the project team SPM (5e) Activity planning? The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009 * Defining activities Activity networks are based on some assumptions: A project is: Composed of a number of activities May start when at least one of its activities is ready to start Completed when all its activities are completed SPM (5e) Activity planning? The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009 * Defining activities -continued An activity Must have clearly defined start and end-points Must have resource requirements that can be forecast: these are assumed to be constant throughout the project Must have a duration that can be forecast May be dependent on other activities being completed first (precedence networks) SPM (5e) Activity planning? The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009 * Identifying activities Work-based: draw-up a Work Breakdown Structure listing the work items needed Product-based approach list the deliverable and intermediate products of project – product breakdown structure (PBS) Identify the order in which products have to be created work out the activities needed to create the products SPM (5e) Activity planning? The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009 * Hybrid approach SPM (5e) Activity planning? The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009 * The final outcome of the planning process A project plan as a bar chart