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Lecture 10 - Software Project Scheduling Flashcards

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What answers the Why question in Software Project Planning?

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Business Case / Scope

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What answers the What question in Software Project Planning?

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Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

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What answers the When question in Software Project Planning?

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Schedule

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What answers the Who question in Software Project Planning?

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Staffing

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What answers the Where question in Software Project Planning?

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Facilities

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What answers the How much question in Software Project Planning?

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Budget / Costs

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In Software Project Planning, what takes place in Introduction?

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Defining objectives of project, setting constraints

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In Software Project Planning, what is Project Organization?

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The way the development team is organized (roles, etc.)

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In Software Project Planning, what is Estimation?

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The effort, cost, schedule estimates, resource availability for the project

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In Software Project Planning, what is Risk Management?

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Possible project risks, their likelihood of occurring, and risk reduction strategies

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In Software Project Planning, what are Hardware / Software? (3)

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  • Support required for development
  • Price estimates if hardware needs to be bought
  • Delivery schedule
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In Software Project Planning, what is Work Breakdown?

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  • Breakdown of project into activities / tasks
  • Identification of milestones / deliverables associated with each task
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In Software Project Planning, what is Project Schedule?

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  • The estimated time to reach each milestone
  • Allocation of resources to activities
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In Software Project Planning, what is Monitoring, Controlling, and Reporting?

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Management reports for monitoring the progression of the project

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In Project Time Management Processes, what is Planning schedule management?

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Determining policies, procedures, documentation that will be used for planning, executing, and controlling the project schedule

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In Project Time Management Processes, what is Defining activities?

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Identifying specific activities that project team members and stakeholders must perform to produce project deliverables

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In Project Time Management Processes, what is Sequencing activities?

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Identifying and documenting relationships between project activities

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In Project Time Management Processes, what is Estimating activity resources?

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Estimating how many resources a project team should use to perform project activities

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In Project Time Management Processes, what is Estimating activity durations?

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Estimating number of work periods needed to complete individual activities

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In Project Time Management Processes, what is Developing the schedule?

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Analyzing activity sequences, activity resource estimates, activity duration estimates to create project schedule

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In Project Time Management Processes, what is Controlling the schedule?

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Controlling and managing changes to project schedule

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A process showing relationship of activities and determining of the project time and the timing of activities comprising the project describes…

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Scheduling

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“What are the critical bottlenecks in the project” is a question considered in…

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Scheduling

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“What are the activities of the project” is a question considered in…

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Scheduling

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“How long the project is expected to take” is a question considered in…

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Scheduling

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“When each activity may be scheduled (started and ended)” is a question considered in…

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Scheduling

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“How resources can be used more proper” is a question considered in…

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Scheduling

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What are the main reasons for conflict on projects?

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Schedule issues

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TF: Conflicts arising from schedule issues is more prevalent in the first half of the project

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False. Second half of the project

30
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What needs to take place during Breakdown in Scheduling Principles?

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Product and process must be decomposed into a manageable number of activities and tasks

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What needs to take place during Interdependency in Scheduling Principles?

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Tasks that can be completed in parallel must be separated from those that must be completed serially

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What needs to take place during Time Allocation in Scheduling Principles?

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Every task has a start and completion date that takes interdependence into account

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What needs to take place during Effort Validation in Scheduling Principles?

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Project manager must ensure that on any given day there are enough staff members assigned to complete the tasks on time

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What needs to take place during Defined Responsibility in Scheduling Principles?

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Every scheduled task needs to be assigned to a specific team member

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What needs to take place during Defined outcomes in Scheduling Principles?

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Every task in the schedule needs to have a defined outcome (work product or deliverable)

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What needs to take place during Defined milestones in Scheduling Principles?

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A milestone is accomplished when one or more work products from an engineering task have passed quality review

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“obtaining customer sign-off on key documents or completion of specific products” is an example of a…

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milestone

38
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What are considered resources? (3)

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  • People
  • Equipment
  • Materials
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What needs to be known before estimating activity durations?

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Must have good idea of the quantity and type of resources that will be assigned to each activity

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What is a Resource Breakdown Structure?

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Hierarchical structure that identifies the project’s resources by category and type

41
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TF: In Activity Duration Estimation, Duration only includes the actual amount of time worked on an activity

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False. actual amount of time worked on an activity plus elapsed time

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In Activity Duration Estimation, what is effort?

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Number of workdays or work hours required to complete a task

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TF: In Activity Duration Estimation, effort equals duration

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False. It does not

44
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TF: In Activity Duration Estimation, only people doing the work should help create estimates

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False. Experts should then review them

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What is an activity / task

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Element of work normally found in WBS that has expected duration, cost, and resource requirement

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What is an activity list?

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Tabulation of activities to be included in project schedule

47
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What is included in an activity list? (3)

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  • Activity name
  • Activity ID
  • Brief description of activity
48
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What are activity attributes?

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Provide more information such as predecessors, successors, logical relationships, leads and lags, etc. related to the activity

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What is Finish to Start (FS) in Task Dependency? Say you have Tasks A and B

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Task B can only start once predecessor task A is completed

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What is Finish to Finish (FF) in Task Dependency? Say you have Tasks A and B

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When Task A finishes, Task B may finish

51
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What is Start to Start (SS) in Task Dependency? Say you have Tasks A and B

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When Task A starts, Task B may Start

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What is Start to Finish (SF) in Task Dependency? Say you have Tasks A and B

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When Task A starts, Task B may finish

53
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In an Activity graph, each activity has… (4)

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  • Predecessor
  • Duration
  • Due Date
  • End point (milestone or deliverable)
54
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In an activity graph, each task has… (3)

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  • Start time
  • End time
  • Duration
55
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What is an Activity-on-node network?

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A directed mathematical graph, comprised of nodes that represent activities

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What is included in a node in an Activity-on-node network?

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Information about an activity, such as earliest and latest times

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What do edges represent in an Activity-on-node network?

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Transitions from one activity to another

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In an Activity-on-node network, what is Earliest Start Time (ES)?

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The earliest time an activity can begin, based on the completion of its predecessor activities

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In an Activity-on-node network, what is Earliest Finish Time (EF)?

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The earliest time an activity can be completed, calculated by adding the activity’s duration to its Early Start (ES)

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In an Activity-on-node network, what is Latest Finish Time (LF)?

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The latest time at which the activity can be completed without delaying the project

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In an Activity-on-node network, what is Latest Start Time (LS)?

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Equals to the latest finish time minus the time required to complete the activity.

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What does a node look like in an Activity-on-node network?

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ES | A | EF
SL
LS | DR | LF
- SL = Slack/Float
- A = Activity identifier
- DR = Duration

ES | A | EF |

63
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What does a schedule/activity network impose?

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Imposes an “is preceded by” relation on a collection of tasks

63
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TF: A Schedule/Activity network is an aggregation relation

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False. A time-ordering relation

64
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TF: A WBS is an aggregation relation

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True

65
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TF: An schedule/activity network contains hierarchical (aggregation) information

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False. It does not

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TF: A WBS contains no sequencing (scheduling) information

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True

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