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1. There is a lot of talk about the process for developing cost estimates but the schedule process is not as well defined. What are your thoughts on how to estimate an accurate schedule?
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2.How do you determine if the project is "sensitive" to the specific items? What are the criteria for selecting items for analysis?

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1. There is a lot of talk about the process for developing cost estimates but the schedule process is not as well defined. What are your thoughts on how to estimate an accurate schedule?

Accurate scheduling can be based on various processes. For example, past experiences of project manager and team members related to projects of similar nature is a good starting point to estimate completion schedule for various individual components of the project. Past experienced pertaining to scheduling provides a good starting point to estimate schedule for individual components as team members are aware of the real life issues and delays and calculate fair estimate of time ...

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