Scheduling: How to Estimate Your Project Schedule

Arriving at a robust project schedule is hard. But, in this video, I will break it down into a simple process with three phases and 10 steps.
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Summary of my 10-step process for estimating your project schedule
Ph 1: Understanding
1. Understand the context of your project
2. Understand history
3. Understand the requirements
4. Document your assumptions
Ph 2: Estimating
5. Initial, Top-level estimate
6. Detailed estimate
7. Confidence level
Ph 3: Protecting
8. Contingency
9. What if?
10. Checking and review
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⏱ Chapter Markers...
00:00 - How to Estimate your Project Schedule
00:33 - Phase 1: Step 1
00:58 - Phase 1: Step 2
01:37 - Phase 1: Step 3
02:09 - Phase 1: Step 4
03:02 - Phase 2: Step 5
03:43 - Phase 2: Step 6
04:22 - Phase 2: Step 7
05:38 - Phase 3: Step 8
06:10 - Phase 3: Step 9
06:41 - Phase 3: Step 10
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[@MissEugeniaS]

Thank you for the video. How to estimate timeline for a creative project like design?

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You're welcome. The principles are the same - but you do need to understand the nature of the creative project. You also need to allow plenty of contingency and set clear quality standards. Creative projects are harder to fix a schedule for and so sometimes it is best to start with a schedule constraint (a deadline) and then do the design to fit the time-box. As long as you understand the design process (in context) enough, this will allow the creative to work with a reasonable amount of pressure, and to self-manage.

[@MissEugeniaS]

Thank you so much! ​@@Onlinepmcourses

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@@MissEugeniaS You're welcome.

[@jambo7322]

Back to the basics, love it!

[@Onlinepmcourses]

@@jambo7322 Thank you.

[@Zmary]

Thank you

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You're welcome.