Now, we are ready to get down to the serious business of project scheduling.

In this unit, we will bring together our WBS and estimates of time to build a schedule, calculate a critical path, and express this information in the most recognizable output of the planning process: the Gantt chart.

We will then introduce you to some more advanced scheduling techniques, including:

• Resource leveling
• Fast-tracking, and
• Crashing

…and give you practical examples of their application.

As you will see, the mathematics that underpins project scheduling are quite simple and elegant; the project manager’s skill is in anticipating the consequences of each intervention.