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Network diagram

A Network Diagram is a graphical way to view tasks, dependencies, and the critical path of your project. Boxes (or nodes) represent tasks, and dependencies show up as lines that connect those boxes. After you’ve switched views, you can add a legend, customize how your boxes appear, and print your Network Diagram.

Precedence diagram

S curve
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resources levelling

This planning process can be summed up in four steps:

1. Create a realistic estimate of your project resource needs. Project resource needs are defined by several factors. How many resources will you need to complete this project by the requested due date? How many work hours will be required? What types of skills are required? How will these resources be acquired? What will they cost and can you afford them?
2. Identify your project resource gap (the variance between required resources vs. available resources) according to resource numbers, skills and work hours.
3. Consider the possibilities for managing the resource gap. Depending upon individual circumstances, you can take one or more approaches to resource gap management, including adding more resources, changing the project or elongating the schedule.
4. Negotiate for your best position. In order to negotiate, you must have a firm grasp on internal project and organizational dynamics. How important is this project to your organization? How does your project rank in value compared to other projects? What are your scheduling flexibilities and how will you convince stakeholders that any resource related scheduling adjustments will not diminish overall project value?

advantage of LOB planning techniques
The advantages of LOB schedule are as follows

1. Clearly shows the amount of work taking place in a certain area at a specific time of the project
2. Has the ability to show and optimize the resources used for large number of repeated activities, executed in several zones or locations.
3. Easier cost and time optimization analysis because of all the information available for each activity in the project.
4. Ease of setup and its superior presentation and visualization
5. Easier to modify, update and change the schedule
6. Better managing of all the various sub-contractors in the project
7. Allows for simpler and clearer resource management and resource optimization functions.
8. Visualization of productivity and location of crews.
9. It allows project managers to see, in the middle of a project, whether they can meet the schedule if they continue working as they have been.