Schedule Planning

	PROJECT PLANNING
	Setting the Plan: Creating a Project Timeline Even before developing a critical path Planning Schedule, a good first step is to develop a simple one-page timeline that provides a high level overview of your project. Consider setting a "finish" milestone date for the end of the project and then work backward in time to establish a "start" milestone for the project. Then fill in the time between the newly created "start" and "finish" milestones. Follow up with a more detailed Planning Schedule to validate your timing assumptions.		Early in the planning phase, your newly created timeline is a valuable tool for communicating your basic timing plan to all interested parties as they join the project team. Planning usually refers to the period of time in a project that is 24 to 6 months before the project start. "Project Timelines" and "Planning Schedules" are usually developed by the project owner during the planning phase.

	Developing the Plan: Creating the Planning Schedule
	After developing the Project Timeline, how do you know that your timing is really feasible? Without developing a logic based "Planning Schedule" you run the risk of not allowing enough time to complete your project on time and within budget. A "Planning Schedule" is a high level schedule that sets the basic timeframe for major parts of a project. A planning schedule is absolutely necessary to perform "what-if" analysis of the basic program timing assumptions to ensure that the timeline is feasible. It is a good idea to perform the what-if analysis before other team members come on board. The "owner" of the planning schedule is usually the project owner.		Based on an owner's detailed Scope of Work, a Planning Schedule validates the high level timing assumptions contained in the Project Timeline. A scope of work can be derived from bid documents, estimates developed during the bid process, or through in-depth interviews with the site personnel assigned to the project. SchedulePro does not use templates to develop a schedule. Every schedule is unique and is constructed task-by-task, based on your scope of work and our expertise in developing a rock-solid project schedule.

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