1. Practice Standard for Scheduling Project Manager’s Meeting Status April 28, 2004 Project Manager – Douglas Clark, CEO of Métier

2. 2 Practice Standard for Scheduling Mission The Practice Standard for Scheduling will: Provide guidelines on developing, using and understanding project schedules. Remain consistent with the PMBOK ® Guide, expanding its concepts and techniques related to Scheduling. Describe the processes related to Scheduling that are generally recognized as good practice for most projects most of the time. Include information that is broadly accepted within the project management community.

3. 3 Practice Standard for Scheduling Organizational chart

4. 4 Practice Standard for Scheduling Charter The expected publication date for the Standard produced by PS-Scheduling is: March 2006 The team will provide the following interim deliverables: Detailed Project Plan Outline of the Standard Pre-exposure Draft of the Standard Exposure Draft of the Standard Final Draft of the Standard incorporating agreed-to Exposure Draft comments Documents showing disposition of all Exposure Draft comments Publicity articles for PMI publications Additional deliverables may be identified during project planning, and should be reflected in the Project Schedule.

5. 5 Practice Standard for Scheduling Methodology Organize - Build foundation processes to generate the standard Audit – Ensure all intra-team comments are tracked Develop Piecemeal – ground up Components of a schedule Component attributes, behaviors, and best practices Best practices for scheduling (MPMOTT) Appendices Integration Exposure

6. 6 Practice Standard for Scheduling High level schedule

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8. 8 Practice Standard for Scheduling Success to date Finalized process document Approved draft glossary Developed and approved style guide Developed a web based comment tracking system Developed template system for component development Identified and adjudicated through team a draft component list Initial committee work underway Developed a draft document outline Approved an initial schedule

9. 9 Draft Document Outline Preface Intended audience Document organization Introduction Overview Purpose Applicability Why use a schedule? What is a schedule? The schedule as a model Components of a Schedule Component - NAME Definition Behaviors Attributes Recommended best practice Scheduling Best Practices (most projects most of the time) Properties of a Good Schedule Appendices Appendix A – Standards Setting Process Appendix B – Evolution of the standard Appendix C – Contributors and Reviewers Appendix D – Guidelines for a PMI Practice Standard Industry Specific best practices and examples Future directions and trends XML Schema References Glossary Index

10. 10 Practice Standard for Scheduling Q&A