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Questions tagged [scheduling]

This is for task scheduling or resource allocation questions.

Wikipedia says "In project management, a schedule is a listing of a project's milestones, activities, and deliverables, usually with intended start and finish dates."

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How to schedule a team during a time of many holidays, on a project with a tight deadline?

You are assigned a three month duration project at the end of the calendar year that has legal obligation of a finish by Jan 1. The schedule is very aggressive with higher odds missing that date than hitting it. The team is between 12 to 15…
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How do you work around a production team that is distracted by support tickets and micro projects?

I need some guidance on this project management situation. I have a software team with 4 developers, 1 QA analyst, and 2 part time student interns. I have several projects where the owner has over-promised on delivery milestones that cannot be…
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What went wrong - project going off track

I'm not a PM. I'm a developer working on a large project with a small team at an 18 person company. The "team" is just me and the project manager. The project isn't the largest my company has ever had but it's right up there within 5-10% of the…
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Linear Programming and PERT charts

I've studyed some Operations Research (maths), as well as some Project Management (for engineers) at Uni. It is fairly well known that directed Graph with weighted edged (such as a PERT Chart, and family.) can be reduced into a series of…
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How to manage a project schedule based on Late Start dates?

We finished planning a project a month ago and since then have had four formal changes pushing out start dates to the latest possible. Scope change isn't a factor, rather the root cause appears to be a general lack of resources for all the projects…
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Separation of cost from percentage complete?

I am monitoring the progression of a mine shaft. I have 2 goals each month: Goal 1: Progress 247 feet per month Goal 2: Spend roughly $133k per month. However, spend is not solely driven by the depth achieved Thus, I’d like to monitor the "work…
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Calculate hours for project

I'm trying to calculate hours for a project, but I feel very stuck and without too much experience I'm not sure where to start. This is for a software project and the requirements for the software has been split into tasks, but each task is very…
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Schedule Logic, Use of Leads and Lags

I was recently told that you shouldn't have or minimize the use of leads and lags in your schedule as it somehow affects the calculation of critical path. I do not know if this guidance is limited to MS Project or if it is consistent with all…
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Early and Late Start

A statement "a plan curve that will be created based on 40% late, 60% early" - does it mean a 40% chances of starting late and a 60% chances of starting early . . . please help me clarify a plan curve with a large left shoulder, and the right…
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Project scheduling based on use cases or technical tasks

We have a web project going on and there are several use cases and we're now busy scheduling the development of the project. We're wondering what the best practices are about scheduling a project. Should we schedule our project based upon use cases…
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Optimizing scheduling of developers: "who works on what, and when"?

I'm trying to plan the next 9-12 months of development using a Gantt chart. I've input all the tasks, their durations, and their dependencies, and all is well. However, as I assign developers to tasks, I've noticed that some developers have big…
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Do you know what Level 1,2,3 start dates end dates refer to?

I am new to current company. After reviewed the old project history, I found all projects have L1 project start date, L1 project end date, L2 project start date ... etc After talk with a senior PM, he said L1 is referring to "planned date" before…
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Actual Start Date in MS Project

I have a problem: I have a schedule that is baselined, constructed using horizontal and vertical logic, constraint free, fixed duration. I have a work package / task that has a FS dependency. The predecessor is not finished; however, the…
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Activity-on-arrow (AoA) diagram review

so I don't completely understand dummy activities(arrows) in AoA diagrams, so I decided to do some practice questions related to it. I was wondering if anyone have a look at my solution and tell me if i am right or what i did wrong, it would be…
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Is there a known math formula or algorithm to determine delivery date of dependent work

Say that an item is an indivisible piece of work that needs to be achieved by one resource (worker). Each item must be: Step 1: prepared by one of the resources from group A, Step 2: And then transformed by one of the resources from group B. Step…
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