Reflections

Anvesh Apale_HRLP014_Project Management_Scheduling

It’s is rightly said:-"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail ". Today’s class on project management taught us scheduling which is an important concept in planning a project. The overall success of any project depends on the completion of various activities which are an integral of that project.

It is essential to estimate the duration for each activity. For the successful tracking of various tasks, it is also important to estimate the start time and the required completion time of each project. We should also ensure that the estimates are aggressive, yet realistic. If we can manage the schedule of each of the activities which are a part of the project, we can ensure the timely delivery of the project without compromising the quality of deliverables.

Scheduling is required because often there exist a dependency in the various activities identified as a part of project. For instance if activity 2 is dependent on activity 1, then activity 2 cannot ideally be started before the completion of activity 1. The earliest finish time of any activity can be calculated by the earliest start time and duration estimate. We learned the concept of scheduling and slack by doing a couple of activities within our groups.  It was an enriching experience because we were able to apply these theoretical concepts on a project of our choice.