Software Project Management in Practice

4.3. SCHEDULING

The scheduling activity at Infosys can be broken into two subactivities: determining the overall schedule (the project duration) with major milestones, and developing the detailed schedule of the various tasks.

4.3.1. Overall Scheduling

As discussed earlier in the chapter, you can gain some flexibility in determining the schedule by controlling the staffing level, but this flexibility is limited. Because of this possible flexibility, building strict guidelines for scheduling may not be desirable; strict guidelines forfeit the advantage of the flexibility to be passed to the project or the customer. Furthermore, the project schedule is usually determined in the larger context of business plans, which impose some schedule requirements. ...