Planning and Scheduling

Project planning:-

Basically, project planning is all about selecting and designing efficacious policies and methodologies to achieve project objectives.

Project scheduling:-

Project scheduling is a policy of set tasks to get them absolute by allocating appropriate resources within an approximate budget and time-frame.

Stages of project planning:

The project planning stages are:-

• Identifying the key project sponsors and stakeholders
• Determine the basis of project scope, budget and time-frame
• Enlisting the stake holder
• Determine the project deliverables required to achieve project objectives
• Identifying the project risks
• Creating the  project schedule

Benefits of project planning:

• Route-map
• Documentation of customer requirements
• Task autonomy
• Resource Estimation
• Mitigation plan
• Identification of employee capabilities

Stages of project scheduling:

• Task breakdown structure
• Determine the project related tasks
• Identify the human resources
• Examine the detailed schedule
• Govern the schedule

Benefit of project scheduling:

• Reduces lead time
• Cost reductions
• Facilitates productivity
• Foresee problems in advance
• Sets a Goal
• Current progress updates and alerts