Project Planning Process

Question 1

What Project Controls would you implement to ensure successful project planning execution and delivery?

Question 2

What.benefits can be realised when using a Project lifecycle?

Question 3

What benefits can be applied when applying Earned value management?

Question 4

What experience do you have in Primavera or any project planning software system?

Question 5

What is difference between planning and scheduling?

Answer 5

Planning deals with why project objectives , what scope of work or basis of design , how ( project execution strategy & plan) and who ( project organisation structure & contracting strategy).

While scheduling deals with when.

Question 6

True or false? Project planners define the activities to accomplish goals and objectives.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

True or false ?

Scheduling deals with the development of progress measurement system ?

Answer 7

False, planning deals with development of progress measurement system while scheduling deals with implementation and operation of progress measurement systems.

Question 8

Which role ( scheduling or planning ) is involved in undertaking critical path methods (CPM) & resource analyses , including the determination of critical path and producing resource histogram?

Answer 8

Scheduling

Question 9

True or false? Planning deals with review of safety constructibility , maintain ability and operability of the plants?

Answer 9

True Planners involves dealing with safety , maintainable and construction of plants

Question 10

While planning involves the setting of goals and objectives , scheduling deals with …..

Answer 10

Scheduling deals with mechanics of converting the plan into a timetable.

Question 11

While scheduling is a reflection of a project plan Planning does what?

Answer 11

Planning provides the basis for time and resource estimation.

Question 12

What are the consequence of using lag?

Answer 12

Lag if used abusively can impact logic of a schedule program. It can lessen the ability of the project schedule to dynamically respond to changes in status of predecessor activities, because it is static. Lags distort float calculation s.

Question 13

What methods can be applied to remove unnecessary lag in finish to start relationship ?

Answer 13

Effort should be made to break tasks up to smaller tasks and to identify predecessor and successor activities .

Question 14

What is better alternative to using leads as negative lag.

Answer 14

The concept of a lead is better representated by positive lag on a S-S relationship or even more straight forward in F- S relationship with no lag using smaller duration activities.

Question 15

What could be a consequence of having lead longer than successor activity?

Answer 15

It may lead to logic failure.

Question 16

What is loading resources?

Answer 16

The process of assigning labour , equipment , material to an activity on the schedule.

Question 17

What does CDMC stand for?

Answer 17

Construction , Design , Management Co-ordinator - a pre construction document issued for buildings which take longer than 30 days or 500 man days . This document contains the construction health and safety plans meant to alert those tendering.