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Project Schedule Management Flashcards

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What are the key inputs for define activity

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  1. Project management plan
    a. Schedule Management Plan
    b. Scope Baseline (WBS, WBS dictionary, project scope statement)
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What’s the key tools & technique for define activity

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  1. Decomposition (breaking down work packages into smaller activities)
  2. Rolling wave planning (progressive elaboration)
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What’s activity list

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  1. list of all scheduled activities to complete work package

Note: each activity should map to one work package and should have identifier

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What’s activity attribute

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resources needed to complete activity, location of activity, cost, assumption, constraints, leads and lags, relationship with other activities

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Milestone List

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milestone = major accomplishment or event

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What is sequence activity

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Take list of activity and put them in order

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What are the key inputs for scheduling activities

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  1. Project Management Plan
    a. Schedule Management Plan
    b. Scope Baseline
  2. Project Documents
    a. Activity list
    b. Activity attributes
    c. Milestone list
    d. Assumption log
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What are the tools & techniques to sequence activities

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  1. Precedence Diagramming Method
  2. Dependency Determination
    3, Leads & Lags
  3. Project Management Information System
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What’re FS, FF, SS, SF

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  1. Finish-to-Start (FS): finish activity A then can start activity B
  2. Finish-to-Finish (FF): finish both activities simultaneously
  3. Start-to-Start (SS): start activity A first before starting activity B
  4. Start-to-Finish (SF): cannot finish until activity A starts
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What’s mandatory dependency

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Have to finish one activity to start next activity (hard logic)

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Discretionary dependencies

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activities do not need to get done in specific order (soft logic)

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External dependencies

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dependent on activities outside of project team

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Internal dependencies

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depend on activities within the control of project team

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What’s the output of sequencing activity

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Project schedule network diagram

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What’s the output of sequencing activity

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Project schedule network diagram

project document update (those inputs)

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What are the examples of input of estimating activity duration

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  1. Project Management Plan (e.g. schedule management plan, scope baseline)
  2. Project document list
    a. activities: activity list, attributes, milestone
    b. resource: resource breakdown structure, calendar, requirement
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What are the examples of input of estimating activity duration

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  1. Project Management Plan (e.g. schedule management plan, scope baseline)
  2. Project document list
    a. activities: activity list, attributes, milestone
    b. resource: resource breakdown structure, calendar, requirement
18
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What’s Analogous estimating? What’s the advantage and drawback

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  1. Historical information to assign current duration
  2. Quick to do
  3. Less accurate
19
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What’s parametric estimating

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based on historical data and variable to estimate activity duration

20
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Three point estimate (Beta distribution)

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(optimistic +4 * realistic + pessimistic)/4

21
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What’s the formula to calculate std dev

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(pess-opt)/6

22
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What’s triangular distribution

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(opt + realistic + pess)/3

23
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Critical path activities have float

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False

24
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What is float

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The amount of time that can delay activity without delaying project end date

25
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What is resource levelling? What’s the solution and impact?

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  1. Overallocated resources that is working on two or more activities
  2. Arrange in sequential order instead of parallel. might lengthen critical path
26
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Resource Smoothing

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Change the schedule without affecting critical path

27
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What is Monte Carlo Simulation

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What if scenario testing

28
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What are two types of schedule compression

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  1. Crashing: add more resources to activities to complete them faster
  2. Fast tracking: do activities in parallel instead of sequentially
29
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Schedule Baseline

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  1. can only be changed with approval

2. measure the progress of project schedule

30
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Project schedule

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  1. include start date and end date for all activities
    a. Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
    b. Milestone chart: only show major deliverable
    c. Project schedule network diagram
31
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Formula of calculating float

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LS-ES
OR
LF-EF

32
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Calculation of EF

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ES + Duration -1

33
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Calculation of LS

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