Elements and Performance Criteria
- Direct project schedule development
- Determine from individual project plans the duration, effort, sequence and interdependencies of major activities and milestones to form the basis of the program schedule
- Direct project managers, through use of time management methods, techniques and tools, preferred schedules, time management plans, resource allocation and financial requirements, to enable continuous updating and refining of the program schedule
- Formalise and communicate project schedules to stakeholders, with agreement, as basis for planning, implementation and review of progress
- Manage program schedules
- Develop, implement and modify mechanisms to monitor, control, record and report actual progress in relation to agreed schedule and plans
- Conduct ongoing analysis to identify and forecast variances and trends, and to develop responses, so projects meet their schedules
- Manage durations of key activities and interdependencies between projects to enable financial and resource rationalisation across the program, to meet strategic expectations within the management/reporting period of the program
- Review progress and refine schedules throughout the program life cycle to ensure consistency with changing scope, objectives and constraints related to time and resource availability
- Ensure responses to perceived, potential or actual project schedule changes are authorised, to achieve program objectives
- Analyse time management outcomes
- Review and analyse multiple project and program outcomes from available records and information to determine effectiveness of the schedule and time-management processes
- Pass on lessons learnt to higher project authority and provide feedback for application, planning and implementation of later projects within the program