Managing Projects - Week 3 / Project Schedule Management

Question 1

Process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule

Answer 1

Plan Schedule Management

Question 2

For general purpose scheduling, use….

Answer 2

Microsoft Office Project

Question 3

For Construction Management Scheduling use….

Answer 3

Oracle’s Primavera P6 Professional

Question 4

Process of identifying and documenting the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverable

Answer 4

Define Activities

Question 5

CHRONOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS of what needs to be delivered?

Answer 5

Time Management

Question 6

Process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities

Answer 6

Sequence Activities

Question 7

Process of estimating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with the estimated resources

Answer 7

Estimated Activity Durations

Question 8

Commonly measured in days, but for a short project it could be expressed in hours, or for a long project perhaps weeks may be more appropriate

Answer 8

Estimated Activity Durations

Question 9

Used to mark key deliverables or project stages and are given a zero duration

Answer 9

Milestone Activities

Question 10

“Plan Schedule Management” is simply

Answer 10

• Develop Schedule
• Monitor and Control

Question 11

Time Management includes 5 processes:

Answer 11

• Plan schedule management
• Define activities
• Sequence activities
• Estimate resource requirements
• Develop and control

Question 12

Process of estimating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with the estimated resources?

Answer 12

Estimate Activity Durations

Question 13

Length of time an activity is expected to take to complete is known as

Answer 13

Duration

Question 14

The process of analysing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements, and schedule constraints?

Answer 14

Develop Schedule

Question 15

Most common form of project schedule analysis?

Answer 15

Critical Path Method

Question 16

Most common method of project schedule presentation?

Answer 16

Gantt chart

Question 17

Common examples of schedule optimisation?

Answer 17

  - Network compression
- Resource levelling

Question 18

Process of monitoring the status of the project to update the project schedule and manage changes to the schedule baseline?

Answer 18

Control Schedule

Question 19

The easiest and most well practiced method ofdocumenting the logical sequencing of activities?

Answer 19

Network Diagram

Question 20

Preferred scheduling approach?

Answer 20

Critical Path Method

Question 21

The purpose of the forward pass in CPM is?

Answer 21

Calculate the earliest start and earliest finish dates

Question 22

Two Types of Schedules?

Answer 22

• Gantt Chart
• Network Diagram

Question 23

The purpose of the backward pass in CPM is?

Answer 23

Calculate the latest start and latest finish date

Question 24

Defined as the amount of float (slack) that can be used up without affecting the earliest start of any other activity within the schedule?

Answer 24

Free Float (FF)

Question 25

The shared float for all activities along a particular network branch?

Answer 25

Total Float

Question 26

Translate the logic of the network diagram onto a calendar grid?

Answer 26

Bar Chart

Question 27

Process of ensuring valuable resources are not overloaded or conflicted?

Answer 27

Resources Levelling (Smoothing)

Question 28

Developed with experts to develop a quick estimate; more accurate estimates are gathered later?

Answer 28

Rough Order of Magnitude Estimate (ROM)

Question 29

indicate the periods during which a resource is unavailable?

Answer 29

Resource Calendar

Question 30

May entail overtime or weekend work, increasing resources allocated to the project, or even rethinking the logic of activity sequencing (including fast-tracking)?

Answer 30

Accelerated Completion

Question 31

This approach is sometimes called crashing the program, or duration compression?

Answer 31

Accelerated Completion

Question 32

Inefficiencies, supervision problems and extra working overheads (infrastructure) are introduced that will have an upward effect on activity cost and a reduction in quality, and hence are not always wise decisions?

Answer 32

Duration Compression

Question 33

Each activity a range of values is provided that represent both the best case (optimistic) and worse case (pessimistic) in addition to the most likely scenario  in this way the probability of the project/event being completed on time can be objectively calculated?

Answer 33

Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)

Question 34

Can be used to calculate a budget via the addition of the cost of all resources in the schedule?

Answer 34

Resource Implications

Question 35

Common objective to minimise the amount of time to complete a project (i.e. finish faster)?

Answer 35

Minimising Project Time

Question 36

Drawbacks to finishing more quickly?

Answer 36

• Project costs may risen
• Quality of finished work may fall
• The agreed scope of work may come under pressure
• Additional risk may be added
• Larger contingency may be needed

Question 37

Something that needs to be balanced in order for overallproject performance to be maximised

Answer 37

Time