Chapter Ten. Project Time Management

According to the PMBOK, 3rd edition, Project Time Management consists of the “processes required to accomplish timely completion of the project.” Although the chapter topic title is time management, this chapter is more about schedule management and the processes necessary to complete and control a working schedule for a project. The process areas listed in the PMBOK are: Activity Definition, Activity Sequencing, Activity Resource Estimating, Activity Duration Estimating, Schedule Development, and Schedule Control.

The document you start with for this whole process is the Scope Statement, discussed in the previous chapter. Because the overall scope of the project is included in the Scope Statement, this document ...

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