Case Study 1: Affiliate Project: Project Schedule

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If you look closely at the WBS, you will find that the tasks laid out in that document are laid out by week. The reason for this is because in this particular project, there are several research phases followed by week long depth phases. The tasks in this particular project lend themselves to a week by week layout. Not every project will follow a pattern this neatly laid out, but since this one does, we are not going to fight it.

So the project schedule is almost entirely laid out in the WBS. But it is still important to lay out the schedule in a separate document. The reason for this is because it is entirely possible that we will modify the WBS as we go along so that it better fits into the work that we are doing. In that case, the tentative schedule laid out by that WBS may not be valid. Therefore, it is important that we keep a separate document to follow the schedule.

In the case of this project, it will be something as simple as a google spreadsheet document with a formula built into it to create what is known as a Gantt chart. This is a chart that shows the schedule of a project in a linear fashion.

Check out the schedule I have created for this project at spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p1ghZqjlYBKffvxzlyFL-EA . If you have any questions regarding this or any other aspects to this project, please leave a comment below and I will respond with the best answer I can provide.

Cheers,

Chris

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