2.8. Plan and manage schedule

PMP Certification Plan and Manage Schedule task includes the following enablers:

• Prepare a schedule based on the selected development approach
• Coordinate with other projects and operations.
• Estimate project tasks (milestones, dependencies, story points).
• Utilize benchmarks and historical data.
• Create a project schedule.
• Baseline a project schedule.
• Execute a schedule management plan.
• Analyze schedule variation.

To learn the Plan and Manage Schedule task, you need:

1. In the PMBOK Guide 8^th Edition, read chapter 2.3 (part ‘PMBOK’), Section 4 (Activity list, Activity attributes, Basis of estimates, Duration estimates, Milestone list, Project calendars, Project schedule, Project schedule network diagram, Schedule baseline, Schedule data, Schedule forecasts, Schedule management plan), Section 5 (Agile release planning, Branch and bound, Critical chain method, Critical path method, Dependency determination and integration, Estimation techniques, Leads and lags, Logical relationship, Precedence diagramming method, Reserve analysis, Rolling wave planning, Schedule compression, Schedule network analysis, Velocity).
2. Read the Practice Standard for Scheduling.
3. Watch the video:

5. Test your knowledge to complete the study of the task.