Knowledge Area: Schedule Management

If the project is behind schedule, we first need to understand the extent of variance. If the variance is very small and the team will feel this variance can be managed EASILY without much CHANGE, then in that case, we may not do any alteration except keeping a very close watch on further progress.

Project schedule variance means some of the tasks on the critical path are having variances. Some of the critical tasks are running behind. If the variance requires intervention, then the team will identify means to expedite the remaining project work. Priority has to be given on expediting the work on the critical path without unduly neglecting the non-critical tasks.

Some of the common actions may include adding more RESOURCES on the critical path tasks appropriately or exploring to do some of the FUTURE tasks in parallel which are currently scheduled in sequence. These two methods can help in MAKING up the schedule variance and help in expediting so that the project can be completed as per original timeline.