Project Management Flashcards
Briefy describe Critical Path
The critical path is the sequence of tasks from beginning to end that takes the longest time to complete.
It is also the shortest possible time for the project to be completed in.
Any task in the critical path is a Critical Task.
No Critical task can be changed without affecting the entire projects duration.
Briefly describe Task Dependency
When a task has a dependency, it means work cannot start on that task until the predecessor task has been completed.
Briefly describe Lead-Time
When you add lead time to a task, work on that task will overlap with its predecessor.
Describe how you could use Planning Poker to work through a product backlog with you Agile team.
1 - Each estimator is given a deck of cards with valid time estimates written on them
2 - The Customer / Product Owner reads a story point and it is discussed briefly
3 - Each estimator selects a card from their hand to represent their estimate
4 - Cards are turned over so that all can see them
5 - Discuss diferences in estimates (especially outliers)
6 - Repeat until estimates converge
Describe how you would create a Release Plan for the project sprints, based on initial velocity estimates, and how you would adjust your estimates and sprint planning as the project progresses
Gather all story points and combine them for the project
divide by the initial estimated velocity
This gives the estimated duration of the project
Using the initial velocity estimates, I would allocate story points from the backlog to the first few sprints based on customer + developer priorities.
projections can be made after several scrums have been completed and progress can be extrapolated to gauge when features can be expected.
The use of burndown and burnup charts can be used to track progress
Deliverables can be categorised into will haves, might haves and won’t haves based on the projections.
What is velocity?
Velocity is a measure of team’s rate of progress.
What is a story point?
It is a measure of how big the overall user story size is.
It is NOT a measure of how long it will take or # of people
It is relative to other user stories.
