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Project Management Orientation

Displaying the Schedule

Precedence diagrams, Gantt charts, and milestone charts are ways of displaying the project schedule.  They can be created with most project management software tools.

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Precedence Diagrams
Gantt Charts
Milestone Charts

A milestone chart, is often used for communicating with upper management. 
  
Note that, until resources are actually assigned, these views are only estimates, not actual schedules.  The project manager must use the right view for the right purpose.

Milestone Chart
1: Getting Started
2: Define the Project Team
3: Team Management
4: Identify and Validate Requirements
5: Create Decomposition Structures
6: Risk Management
7: Project Estimates
8: Project Schedules
9: Change Management
10: Project Control and Execution
Defining the Project
11: Project Management Review
12: Project Closeout
13: Project Management Tool Suite
14: Self-Assessment and Final Exam
Fast Points
Concepts
Seven Keys
Case Study
WWPMM
Mentor
Check Point
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