10 Steps to Successful Project Management

STEP SIX

Gather Your Team and Make a Schedule

OVERVIEW

Work Breakdown Structure

Critical Path Diagrams

Gantt Charts

Project Tracking Spreadsheets

 

Now it's time to move into the Plan phase of project management. Here you'll leverage everything you know about the project and build a strategy to meet the business and project objectives. This strategy will include tasks, people who will work on the tasks, dependencies of the tasks, and a timeline. All of these factors appear in your project schedule.

In building a project schedule, you'll work with the following elements:

  Tasks—the specific jobs that need to be done to create the project output. ...