Copy and paste from the following data to produce each assessment task. Write these in plain English and spell out how, when and where the task is to be carried out, under what conditions, and what resources are needed. Include guidelines about how well the candidate has to perform a task for it to be judged satisfactory.
Required skills
analytical skills to review and evaluate process
communication skills to:
convey expectations
advise others of progress
literacy skills to read, develop and interpret project schedules
planning and organising skills to sequence tasks and see that objectives are met
technology skills to use appropriate software to develop project schedules.
Required knowledge
estimation techniques to determine task duration and resource effort
procedures for identifying critical path
procedures for managing project baselines, establishment and variance
project life cycle phases and what is included in each phase
time-management methodologies, and their capabilities, limitations, application and outcomes
tools and techniques for project schedules
work breakdown structures and application to project schedules.
The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.
Work breakdown structure may include: | activity and task descriptors high-level deliverables framework multi-level task granulation work breakdown task dictionary. |
Estimating the duration and effort may include: | allowance for contingency and risk availability of resources and supplies degree of variation expert opinion level of accuracy prior project history regulations and standards governing resource performance top-down or bottom-up estimating. |
Sequence and dependencies may include: | deliverable milestones preferred, logical or required order of task completion relationship between tasks impacting on start and finish times and dates. |
Project-scheduling tools and techniques may include: | bar charts conducting or supervising qualitative and/or quantitative time analysis, such as schedule simulation, decision analysis, contingency planning and 'what if' scenarios critical chain management critical path diagrams Gantt charts project schedule network diagrams standalone, organisation-integrated or cloud-based software tools using personal experience and/or subject matter experts using specialist time-analysis tools to assist in the decision-making process. |
Schedule impact may include: | accuracy of estimates advances or delays in task completion changes to project risk changes to resources and cost degree of change to baseline relevance of task dependencies. |
Schedule baseline may include: | assigned responsibility assigned schedule-management responsibilities charted milestones contingency plans project schedule and sub-schedules critical path analysis resource assignment to task schedule-management strategies and actions. |
Agreed schedule changes may include: | applied constraints changing objectives changing scope delayed or advanced task completion resource availability. |
Review of schedule performance may occur at: | agreed major milestones, e.g. phases and subcontracts change of key personnel completion of major deliverables finalisation of project and other agreed milestones. |
Records may include: | diaries, incident logs, occurrence reports and other such records evaluation of options Gantt, PERT and other scheduling charts lists of variances and forecasts of potential scheduled events project and/or organisation files and records recommended and approved courses of action records of analysis work breakdown structure. |
Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.
Observation Checklist