Ensure project team members share a common understanding of project goals and objectives, key parameters, implementation strategies, and major responsibilities and document these requirements into a project charter
Ensure development of contract strategies involving approaches to initial studies, obtaining consultants, design drawings, contract breakdown, construction, commissioning and subsequent client/user requirements
Make implicit assumptions about the future so that action can be taken today
Facilitate the accomplishment of objectives (as part of an iterative process involving planning, action, measurement, evaluation and revision)
Develop work breakdown and organization structures to define project scope, codes and responsibilities
Develop a Master Plan to establish the initial target schedule, (or baseline) including milestones (key events) and a relevant cash flow. The Master Plan should be developed using 'Critical Path Logic Diagram' techniques
Detailed scheduling
Establish detailed activities for the tasks or work to be performed to complete the project. This is structured as a network or critical path logic diagram depicting relationships and interdependencies among the project tasks. The network or critical path diagram identifies critical paths (based on total float calculation) and permits consideration of project uncertainties
Establish a detailed record of tasks or activities that must be accomplished to satisfy the project objectives. These activities are generally formed from the skeleton of the Master Plan
Estimate the work content of an activity, assign resources to the activities to be performed, assign budgeted costs, and determine the logic, relationships and duration of each activity within the requirements of meeting the project objectives and deadlines
Process the schedule using project management software. Analyse the schedule and produce reports (networks, bar charts, costs and resources, etc.) to provide by activity, early and late start dates, critical paths and overall project duration
Monitoring and control
Monitor actual progress on the project and compare it against the pre-established baselines for the project time and cost. Analyze the impact of change, and where necessary, implement corrective action to bring the actual performance back in line with the approved baseline Master Plan (milestones).
