Different sides of Project Management Scheduling

In each project, after coming up with an idea there is time for creating process and some plan is need to be done. To reach the goal without bigger problems and unexpected barriers project scheduling is a tool that every creating process need. There are many kinds and ways how we can set a plan of work and set our deadlines. Each type has its pros and cons, which depends on its structure and way how it should be implement, but most important thing is to determine what are our goals and how they should be reached before we start creating a schedule. Main purpose and milestones during the creation process can be set by time, date deadlines, depend on different stages of project or work of individual people. In general scheduling tool in project managment was implemented to help in organizing group of people who have different working styles or approach.

Most Common Scheduling Tools

Task List

Most common in use and the simplest technique. It is the list with pointed out things to do, this method is familiar to most people, even not connected with managing because it is the same thing as the shopping list. This technique is mostly used for individual or small group projects, because with larger group of people, many tasks and dependencies controlling the project can be problematic and overall view can be unsettled. Currently project schedules are based in company web so that each employee or group member has access to it. However when the schedule, especially task list is not web-based there are firmly limitations when it comes to collaborating and updating the schedule. Another flaw of this method is impossibility of tracking the progress of the project when it has to be uptaded manualy.

Gantt Chart

This is method focused on the best possible preview of progress tracking. The biggest advance of this technique for managers is clear vizualization of time which is needed for individual tasks to be done. It is represented by bars placed one under the other from the top to the bottom (sequence of the respective tasks, top - beginning of the project, bottom - the end if it) and with adequate lenght showing the time needed for complete the given task. This method is easy to apply in different industries, but it has to be done carefully and thought through because it has similar limitations like task list and can not be changed easily.

Calendar

Compilation of gantt chart and task list, it is simple and logical way of scheduling and there is no need to appling any special software for company to place it in the web. Tasks can be add as events in the calendar and each project or its part can has separate calendar with special name, so it is easy to controll the progress and track by the group members. Only limitations of the calendar is impossibility of assigning tasks to certain people and describing tasks dependencies.