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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Assist in developing project schedule
   • Contribute to developing work breakdown structure
   • Contribute to estimating duration and effort, sequence and dependencies of tasks to achieve project deliverables
   • Contribute to identifying schedule impact on project time management, resource requirements, costs and risks using project scheduling tools and techniques
   • Contribute to achieving an agreed schedule baseline and communicating the schedule to stakeholders
2. Maintain project schedule
   • Record and report progress of activities in relation to agreed schedule using selected tool
   • Record baseline variance between actual and planned progress
   • Contribute to forecasting impact of change on the schedule and analysing options
   • Update task status and agreed changes to maintain currency and accuracy of schedule
3. Participate in assessing time-management outcomes
   • Participate in determining effectiveness of time management from review of project performance
   • Contribute to document scheduling and time-management issues and responses to assist in project evaluation

Performance Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to:

support project managers and other team members to apply project time management techniques during at least two different projects.

In the course of the above, the candidate must:

create a project schedule showing tasks, deliverable milestones, sequence, dependencies and time estimates

apply time-management techniques in a project

use relevant tools and techniques to maintain, monitor and update a project schedule.

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including knowledge of:

contents of work breakdown structure detail to enable effective project planning and control

implications of time management for project resources, costs and risks

methods for estimating task duration and resource requirements

tools and techniques for managing project time and their particular applications

methods to evaluate the effectiveness of time management

techniques used to measure, record and report progress of activities.

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