Chapter 28 - Project Management

Question 1

Planning involves setting requirements in three critical areas:

Answer 1

time
fees
quality

Question 2

_____ is scheduling the work required and making sure there are enough fees and staff to complete it

Answer 2

time planning

Question 3

A ____ takes the total fee the designer will receive for the project and allocates it to the schedule and staff members who will work on the project, after deducting amounts for profit, overhead, and other expenses

Answer 3

fee projection

Question 4

_____ involves determining with the client what the expectations are concerning design, cost, and other aspects of the project

Answer 4

quality planning
quality does not simply mean high-cost finishes but rather the requirements of the client based on his or her needs

Question 5

____ is keeping track of the progress of the job to see if the planned aspects of time, fee, and quality are being accomplished

Answer 5

monitoring

Question 6

what helps with monitoring?

Answer 6

a project monitoring chart

Question 7

what does a project monitoring chart show?

Answer 7

original fee projections can be monitored by comparing weekly time sheets with the original estimates

actual money against budgeted fees

Question 8

What is the excessive perfection syndrome?

Answer 8

the same amount of time and fee takes the project from 0-80% as it does to get from 80% to 90%

Question 9

there are two major parts of a project schedule

Answer 9

design time
construction and installation time

Question 10

while the overall construction schedule is determined by the contractor, the designer must project and estimated schedule during which phase?

Answer 10

programming

Question 11

What’s one of the easiest and most common ways to schedule both design and construction?

Answer 11

the bar chart, or Gantt chart

Question 12

what’s a short coming of the Gantt chart?

Answer 12

it cannot show all of the sequences and dependencies of one activity on another

Question 13

A _______ graphically depicts all the tasks required to complete a project, the sequence in which they must occur, their duration, the earliest or latest possible starting time, and the earliest or latest possible finishing time

Answer 13

CPM chart (critical path method)each arrow in the CPM chart represents an activity with a beginning and an end point. no activity can begin until activities leading into the circle have been completed.

Question 14

what’s represents the critical path in the CPM chart?

Answer 14

they heavy line in the illustration

Question 15

Another technique sometimes used by contractors for large jobs is the program evaluation and review technique, or ______

Answer 15

PERT chart
similar to CPM but uses different charting methods

Question 16

What’s a technique for developing a schedule that can involve all members of the design and construction team and client?

Answer 16

completing a full wall schedule. vertical lines lay out the weeks. each task is written on two 3x5 index cards (one labelled start and the other finish) and these are put on the board and moved around until everyone agrees upon them

Question 17

four basic kinds of communication in a design office:

Answer 17

work assignment, instructional, reward and punishment, and social for the greatest impact deal with each separately

Question 18

outline the task, time allowed, and results expected

Answer 18

in order to be clear