Schedule
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Activity Definition
The process of identifying and documenting the specific actions required to produce project deliverables, decomposing work packages into discrete schedulable activities.
Baseline Schedule
The approved, time-phased plan against which actual progress is measured and variance is reported throughout the project.
Critical Path Method (CPM)
A deterministic scheduling technique that identifies the longest chain of dependent activities and the activities that drive the project completion date.
Dependency Mapping
The systematic identification of internal, external, mandatory, and discretionary relationships between activities so the schedule logic mirrors the way work really has to happen.
Earned Schedule
A time-based extension of earned value that converts schedule performance into units of time, fixing EVM's well-known late-project blind spot.
Float Management
The deliberate planning and consumption of schedule float (slack) to absorb uncertainty and prioritise management attention.
Forward Pass Scheduling
The CPM calculation that walks the network from project start to finish to determine the Early Start and Early Finish of every activity, establishing the earliest the project can possibly complete.
Gantt Chart
A bar-chart visualisation of project activities along a calendar axis, used to communicate schedule, dependencies, and progress.
Hammock Activity
A summary scheduling element whose duration is dynamically derived from the start of one activity and the finish of another.
Integrated Master Schedule
A single, network-logic schedule that integrates all activities, deliverables, milestones and resources across every contributor on a programme, used as the authoritative basis for planning, reporting and analysis.
Linear Scheduling Method
A graphical scheduling technique tailored to linear and repetitive projects — highways, pipelines, tunnels, high-rise floors — that plots progress in space against time so production rates and crew interactions are visible at a glance.
Look-Ahead Schedule
A short-term, detailed schedule (typically 3–6 weeks) extracted from the master schedule and made constraint-free, used to drive day-to-day execution and crew coordination.
Milestone
A zero-duration scheduling marker that signals the completion of a significant deliverable, decision, or transition in the project.
Milestone Trend Analysis (MTA)
A visual technique that tracks the forecast completion dates of project milestones over time, exposing schedule drift early and triggering corrective action.
Network Diagram
A logical graph of project activities and dependencies that exposes the sequence, parallelism, and critical path of the work.
PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique)
A probabilistic scheduling method using three-point activity estimates (optimistic, most-likely, pessimistic) to compute expected durations and variance.
Resource Leveling
A scheduling technique that adjusts activity timing to resolve resource over-allocations, smoothing demand against available capacity.
Rolling Wave Planning
A planning technique that details near-term work to a fine grain while keeping later work at a higher level, then progressively refines as the project proceeds.
Time-Impact Analysis (TIA)
A forward-looking schedule-delay analysis technique that quantifies the time impact of a specific change or delay event by inserting a fragnet into the current schedule.