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| What is the process of time management? |
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| Plan Schedule Management/ Define Activities/ Sequence Activities/ Estimate Activity/ Resources Estimate /activity Durations/ Develop Schedule/ Control Schedule |
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| What is the key output of the Plan Schedule Management process? |
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| What are the key outputs of the Define Activities process? |
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| Activity list/ Activity attributes/ Milestone List |
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| What are the key outputs of the Sequence Activities process? |
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Definition
Network diagrams
Updates to project documents |
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| What are some of the key outputs of the Estimate Activates Resources process? |
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Definition
Activity resources requirements
Resource breakdown structure |
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| What are the key outputs of estimate Activity Durations process? |
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Definition
Activity duration estimates
Updates to project documents |
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What does the develop Schedule process involve?
What are some of its key outputs? |
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Definition
Creating a project schedule that is bought into, approved, realistic, and formal
Project schedule
Schedule baseline
Updates to the project management
plan and project documents |
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Term
What are the key outputs
of the control Schedule process? |
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Definition
Work performance information
Schedule forecast
Change requests |
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Term
| What are the four type of logical relationships between activities in the precedence diagraming method? |
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Definition
Finish to start(FS): An activity must finish before the successor can start
Start to start (SS): An activity must start before the successor can start
Finish to finish (FF): An activity must finish before the successor can finish
Start to finish (SF): An activity must start before the successor can finish |
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Term
What are mandatory dependencies?
What are discretionary dependencies? |
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Definition
Mandatory: the order in which activities MUST be done, due to the inherent nature of the work: also called “hard logic”
Discretionary: The order in which the organization has chosen that activities be performed; also called preferred, preferential or soft logic |
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What are external dependencies?
What are internal dependencies? |
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Definition
External: Dependencies based on the needs of a party OUTSIDE the project
Internal: Dependencies based on the project needs of the project; may be under the control of the project team |
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Term
What is a lag?
What is a lead? |
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Definition
Lag: Waiting time inserted between activities
Lead: How soon an activity can start before its procure activity can start before its predecessor activity is complemented |
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Term
| What is a resource breakdown structure? |
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Definition
| An organizational chart or table showing identified resources, organized by category and type |
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Term
| How does a schedule model differ from a schedule? |
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Definition
The schedule model consists of all the project data that will used to calculate the schedule, such as the activities, dependencies leads and lags, etc.
The project schedule is the output of the schedule model- this refers to the final, printed dates that make up the schedule that becomes the baseline and part of the project management plan |
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Term
What is the critical path?
What is the near critical path? |
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Definition
Critical: The longest path through the network diagram
Near-critical: The path closet in length to the critical path |
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Term
| How does the critical path help us manage the project? |
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Definition
It shows the project manager the shortest time in which the project can be completed
It shows the project manager where to focus his or her time
It is used in compressing or adjusting the schedule. |
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Term
| Define total float, free float, and project float |
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Definition
Total float: The amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the project and date or an intermediary milestone
Free float: The amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the early start of its successors
Project float: The amount of time the project can be delayed without affecting the projects required end date |
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| What are the two formulas for calculating float? |
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Definition
Late start- Early Start
Or
Late finish- Early finish |
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| What are the methods that can be used to compress a schedule? |
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Definition
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Term
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| Adding or adjusting resource in order to compress the schedule while maintaining the original project scope |
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Term
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Definition
| Compressing the schedule by doing more critical path activities in parallel |
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Term
| What is the critical chain method? |
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Definition
| A schedule network analysis tool that builds in buffers at critical milestones |
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Term
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Definition
| Estimating the project again after planning to make sure you can still meet the end date, budget, or other objectives, and adjusting the project if you cannot |
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Term
| What is resources optimization? |
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Definition
| Finding ways to adjust the use of resources |
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Term
| What is a resource leveling? |
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Definition
| A resources optimization technique that keeps the amount of resources used for each time period constant, resulting in a more stable level of resources and a longer project duration |
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Term
| What is resource smoothing? |
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Definition
| A modified form of resource leveling, where resources are leveled only within the limits of the float of their activities, so the completion dates of activities are not delayed |
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| What is the schedule baseline? |
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Definition
| The approved version of the schedule model, along with any approved changes, used to measure project schedule performance |
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| What are the main presentation formats for a schedule? |
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Definition
| Network diagrams/ Bar Charts/ Milestone charts |
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| What do network diagrams show? |
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Definition
| Dependencies (Logical relationships) between activities/ how project activities will flow from beginning to end/ network diagrams may also be used to determine the critical path |
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Term
| What do simple bar charts show? |
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Definition
| Project schedule or project status |
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Term
| What do milestone charts show? |
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Definition
| High level project status |
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Term
| What is Monte Carlo analysis? |
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Definition
| A schedule network analysis technique used to simulate the project to determine the likelihood that the project will be completed by a specific date or for a specific cost. Also used in Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis to determine the overall level of risk on the project |
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