Project Planning Ing. Athanasios Podaras, Ph.D Faculty of Economics Department of Informatics Technical University of Liberec

Content DIFFERENTIATION (INITIATION AND PLANNING PHASE) PLANNING – SCHEDULE - CONTROL (BASED ON SCHEDULE) PLANNING TASKS PROJECT PLANNING METHODS SOFTWARE TOOLS

INITIATION AND PLANNING INITIATION – Definition of Resources (human, financial, infrastructure PLANNING – Specification of tasks and decision about which resources shall be involved in each task

PLANNING Planning: Documentation of Project Implementation Proposal Schedule: Extensive action plan and methodology of the project Control: Observation and continuous comparison of the schedule with reality, and decision making

PLANNING Submission of Project Proposals – Methodology Analysis of Costs Implementation Time Contract

PLANNING (Incoroporated Tasks) Definition of Tasks and corresponding Teams (Assignment of Tasks) Order of Task Implementation Definition of demanded resources demanded for each task

Schedule Specification of timeframes of each task (milestones, starting point, ending point) Calculation of task duration and overall project duration Distribution of resources Balance time and costs (controlling) Comparing plan with progress of the overall project Update plan (in special occasions when requirements are not fulfilled)

Methods for Segmentation of Tasks Gantt Chart Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Responsibility Matrix Immediate Predecessors List PERT/CPM

GHANTT CHART (MS PROJECT)

WBS

PERT DIAGRAM