### Part 3: Making Your Schedule Lean and Mean

After you create your project plan, you’ll want to refine it so that it contains only the tasks that are necessary and optimally scheduled. You streamline your schedule by making trade-offs between scope, resources, and time — the three main factors that shape a project. Strategies for handling each of these factors so that your project finishes on time and within budget are discussed in detail.

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