Project Scheduling 1

Running head : Project Scheduling 1

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Projects usually require a well-developed plan of how long various project activities will take to complete . This requirement thus calls for project managers to undertake a comprehensive examination of the length of time various project parts will consume . Afterwards , a project manager can estimate the will take . In effect , activity duration estimates are vital and basic components of project planning and management because they facilitate effective monitoring and evaluation (Greene , 2009

In project management , activity duration estimate

is the anticipated duration of time that a given project activity is expected to take . This figure is arrived at after a project manager has quantified the length of time utilized in all project activities . Such a figure in turn determines the structure of the preliminary project schedule

To arrive at the activity duration estimate figures of a project , a project manager sources for information regarding the individual work units required for the entire project . After obtaining information regarding the individual time periods that every work unit will take , the manager adds up such time periods to arrive at a single time figure . This is the activity duration estimate for the particular project activity

It is not possible to have a zero activity duration estimate . This is because , if at all a project is , or has , happened , certain duration of time must have gone into this . It is therefore ironical and utterly improbable...