Monday 4 November 2013

Memorizing Project Time Management Planning Processes - Inputs and Outputs using Cascading Inputs Method

Well, lets look at Project Time Management Planning processes. There are six planning processes here. A careful observation helps you to see that outputs of one process are used as inputs by the subsequent processes. This observation is what I call as "Cascading Inputs Method" - my own term (nothing to do with PMBoK(R) or PMI(R)). There are five steps in this method.
Step 1:
Project Time Management Planning Processes - Step 1 of Inputs and Outputs
Step 2:
Project Time Management Planning Processes - Step 2 of Inputs and Outputs
Step 3
Project Time Management Planning Processes - Step 3 of Inputs and Outputs
Step 4
Project Time Management Planning Processes - Step 4 of Inputs and Outputs
Step 5
Project Time Management Planning Processes - Step 5 of Inputs and Outputs

Project Time Management processes are very important from the PMP Exam point of view. Therefore, if you practice these steps multiple times, you can easily visualize the Inputs and Outputs. And also, certain important outputs like Project schedule network diagram, Schedule baseline, Project Schedule - which process creates them you can easily remember.

For the last process in Project Time Management i.e Control Schedule, you can see my earlier post Controlling Processes Inputs and Outputs. I have grouped Controlling processes together as there is lot of similarity between them.






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