When you need it
Prepare this plan before building or accepting the project programme, or when inconsistent calendars, progress rules, and reporting dates make schedule information unreliable across contractors, disciplines, and decision makers.
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Schedule Management Plan
Set how the project schedule is prepared, updated, checked and controlled.
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Learning
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What it helps you decide
It establishes a shared method for planning, updating, checking, changing, and reporting the schedule, allowing managers to interpret date movements consistently and separate genuine progress from inconsistent measurement or baseline treatment.
How to complete it
- Set Planning framework and Calendars and planning conventions using actual working arrangements, programme levels, and dependencies needed to represent the project's delivery strategy.
- Define Progress and update process, including the evidence and reporting basis, then specify Schedule quality checks appropriate to the intended programme use.
- Describe Baseline changes and escalation together with Reporting and retention so approved revisions, current forecasts, and previous programme evidence remain distinguishable over time.
Who prepares and reviews it
The planning manager usually leads with package planners, construction, engineering, procurement, and project controls contributors. The project manager and designated baseline authority review the approach, with contract requirements governing formal programme submissions.
A mistake to avoid
Changing baseline dates during routine updates removes the comparison needed to understand delay and can disguise a forecast movement as an approved plan revision.
Illustrative example
Illustrative example: civil and equipment contractors report progress using different cut-off dates. The plan establishes a common update basis and evidence rules, while retaining appropriate work calendars. The next integrated review can distinguish a real installation delay from the previous reporting-date mismatch.
Document contents
- Planning framework
- Calendars and planning conventions
- Progress and update process
- Schedule quality checks
- Baseline changes and escalation
- Reporting and retention
Required inputs
- Project name, location, company, document number and revision
- Actual project scope, source records and responsible roles
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