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(PS-3850) Utilizing Agile Work Methods in the Schedule Development Process

Level: Basic
TCM Section(s):
7.2. Schedule Planning and Development
Venue: 2022 AACE International Conference & Expo

Abstract: Schedule development is one of the primary areas in the project management process. Project teams focus on gathering data and developing their schedules from the early phase of each project. A well-developed CPM schedule is a key to success for every project team. This paper identifies the characteristics of the schedule development process which make it a proper use case for agile work methods. Also, it explains how key schedule statistics and critical path metrics can be used as key performance indicators (KPI) during agile schedule development to improve and optimize the project schedule throughout the process. This is to ensure that the final product is a robust and reliable schedule that can be used for both monitoring of the project and forecasting the end date.