Scheduler

Definition

Scheduler

the role that is played when a person produces and maintains the master schedule of an endeaver

Responsibilities

The typical role-specific responsibilities of a Scheduler are to:

• Ensure that all endeavor teams produce proper team schedules.
• Obtain team schedules from the endeavor’s teams.
• Produce and maintain the master schedule for the endeavor.

Schedulers typically inherit the general role responsibilities from the role process component.

Expertise

To fulfill these responsibilities, schedulers typically should have the following expertise, training, and knowledge:

• Knowledge of each team’s status.
• Ability to use the endeavor’s scheduling tool.

Tasks

Schedulers typically perform the following role-specific tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Management:
  • Schedule Management

Schedulers typically inherit common role tasks from the role process component.

Teams

Schedulers perform these tasks as members of the following teams:

• Enterprise Management Team
• Program Management Team
• Project Management Team

Work Products

As members of these teams, schedulers typically produce all or part of the following work products:

• Master Schedule
• Status Report (schedule information)

Guidelines

• Scheduler is an important role on any endeavor in which the overall endeavor is important (i.e., on practically all projects).
• Although this role is often played on a project by the same person who plays the project manager role, it is wise to staff this role by an administrative assistant to the endeavor manager on programs and large projects.
• This role typically inherits the common team guidelines from the roles process component.