Learn in the textbookComponents of a Systemization Plan
DefinitionA schedule (スケジュール) is a plan that lays out on a timeline when each stage of systemization starts and ends.
ExplanationThe systemization plan sets a rough overall timeline from requirements definition to go-live and places milestones (マイルストーン), the checkpoints for confirming progress. The delivery deadline (納期) is one of the targets alongside quality and cost, and giving priority to any one of them affects the others.
AnalogyIt is like a travel itinerary in which you fix the departure date, the return date and the day you reach each stop in advance.
Memory hookSchedule traces back to a Latin word for “a small slip of paper”. It is said to have begun as a scrap on which plans were jotted down.