Faculty of Information Technology

Semester 2, 2017

FIT5057
PROJECT MANAGEMENT

TUTORIAL WORKSHOP 6

TOPIC:
Project Time Management

TOPIC: Project Time Management

Learning outcomes:
Describe the steps in schedule management
Identify the link between WBS and activity decomposition
Define the process of activity decomposition
Describe sequence activities and the types of activity dependencies
Identify and describe the various network diagrams for managing activities

Resource: Chapter 6: Brewer, J., and Dittman, K. C. (2013) Methods of IT Project Management, 2nd Edn,
Purdue University Press and other resources:

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Primary Activities
Time Topic Activity Outcomes/ tasks/ resources

15 mins Activity 1: Revision from the previous five weeks lectures:

Review the 1. What is project management Know and understand the project
previous 2. Draw the project management lifecycle complete with the management lifecycle
five weeks project processes Be able to explain the different
lectures 3. Identify in which part of the project lifecycle does the processes of the lifecycle
project team complete project scope
4. Explain why project scope analysis is important to the
success of the project

Describe and know these terms:

Project Schedule
Tutor led discussion: discuss the following: Critical Path
5 mins Network Diagram
What is meant by time management?
Review Lead/Lag
Explain the term schedule baseline
Lecture 5 Free/Total Float
What is the importance of correct scheduling? Activity on Node Diagram
Explain the difference between the work breakdown Activity on Arrow Diagram
schedule and the network diagram? Work packages
Discuss why you use the Activity and Arrow Schedule baseline
diagramming technique
Time Topic Activity Outcomes/ tasks/ resources

40 mins Activity 2: Draw the network diagram using Activity on Node method. Video 1: (4.52 mins)
Scheduling To explain How to make a pepperoni pizza you will need How to make pepperoni pizza
to watch video 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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Suggestions: Draw up the activity and dependency list first
in the correct order, then develop the network diagram. Your
tutor will help you. Video 2: (2.16 mins)
To help you develop the network diagram view video 2. PMP-Drawing a Network Diagram
using activity on node approach
Once completed your tutor will, from your responses, draw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n
your network diagram on the white board ready for LiAvW7
discussion. Xvq4

Now answer the following questions:

1. Explain why project teams develop network diagrams, in
particular, critical path diagrams?
2. What disadvantage(s) is there in using the activity on arrow
diagram?
3. Explain the term dependency when related to activity
sequencing
4. Identify and describe the three types of dependencies
discussed in the lecture
5. Does your diagram reflect the whole WBS?

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60 mins Activity 3: Assignment 1 requirements Note: This should not take more
Assignment than 5 minutes per assignment
Project Teams: group. If a longer discussion is
required then please make use of
1. Provide a team progress report to your project consultations.
supervisor (tutor). This is your opportunity to identify
any issues or concerns you have with the current
progress of the project.

2. If you need to update your plan for completing the

assignment what changes are required to the original
Gantt chart.
Project team meetings will be held with your project In activity 4 please ensure:
supervisor: 1. all team members are present
Your project supervisor will divide their time 2. the Stakeholder management
equally between teams to discuss your documents are in a cohesive
stakeholder management plan and associated draft format ready for viewing
documents. by your project supervisor
3. all team members are
This is an excellent time for you to showcase your
knowledgeable about the
collaborative learning ability to deliver a cohesive
scope documentation
draft set of documents

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
20 mins Activity 4: Create a Critical path diagram (Activity on Node Diagram) in
Software use Microsoft Project or other tool using the following
dependencies

Task Duration Dependencies

A 2 no dependency
B 4 no dependency
C 7 no dependency
D 5 depends on Task A
E 3 depends on Task B and Task C
F 8 depends on Task C
G 10 depends on Task D and Task E
H 4 depends on Task E
I 7 depends on Task F
J 12 depends on Task H and Task I

20 mins Activity 5: Watch video 1 which describes the forward pass approach Video 1: CPM Forward Pass
Critical Path and then answer the following questions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxrcv
Method 1. Describe the forward pass approach E7bDY8
2. What do we know about our project schedule after 1.53
performing the forward pass?
Video 2: CPM- Backward Pass
Now watch video 2 describing the backward pass approach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9
using the same content: KbnvRrTE
1. Describe the backward pass approach 2.53
2. What additional information do we know about our project
after completing the backwards pass.

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Closing activities
Time Topic Activity Outcomes/ tasks/ resources

5-10 iSETU forms Students should complete the iSETU forms for all
mins tutorials for the tutorial they attend

5 min Review the Tutor led discussion reviewing the tutorial:

tutorial material
What are your key Learnings/key takeaways
Next weeks In next weeks lecture we again will be focusing on Chapter 6 Project Time and Cost
tutorial and Chapter 6 where we discuss project cost management Planning, Brewer, J. L. and Dittman, K.
C. Method of IT Project
lecture:
Management

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