Development Cooperation Handbook/Designing and Executing Projects/Project Time

The 9 Topic Areas Of Project Management Knowledge

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Time is one of the 9 topic areas of project management knowledge.

Limited time is the one constraint of any project.

Deadlines is what the project team most commonly struggle to maintain the actions within.

In project management there are various tools and procedures that help managing time, like Gants, schedules, work breakdown structures, etc.

Task of the Project Time Management is to describe and execute all those "processes required to accomplish timely completion of the project" (comp. PMBOK3, p. 123).

Processes, phases and tool

Project Processes	Project Phase	Key Deliverables
Activity Definition, Activity Sequencing, Activity Resource Estimating, Activity Duration Estimating, Schedule Development	Detailed Planning or design stage	Action plan
Control the Project Schedule and Manage Schedule Changes	Project Execution and Control	Example

See also

• on Wikipedia

Time management

• on other Wikibooks

Time Management