Project Schedule Management (2) Flashcards
What are the 6 processes in the project schedule management knowledge area?
Plan schedule management, define activities, sequence activities, estimate activity durations, develop schedule, control schedule
What are the inputs for the plan schedule management process?
Scope MP, project charter, EEFs (culture, resource availability, schedule software, tailoring processes, commercial databases), OPAs (lessons learned, existing schedule guidelines, template, reporting tools)
What are the tools used for the plan schedule management process?
Meetings, expert judgement, data analysis (alternative)
What are the outputs of the plan schedule management process?
Schedule MP
What are the inputs of the define activities process?
PMP (schedule MP, scope baseline), EEFs (culture, commercial databases, PMIS), OPAs (lessons learned, standard processes, templates)
What is a PMIS?
Project management information system
What are the tools used for the define activities process?
Expert judgement, meetings, rolling wave planning, decomposition
What are the outputs of the define activities process?
Activity list, activity attributes, milestone list, change requests, PMP updates (schedule and cost baselines)
What is progressive elaboration?
Iterative process of increasing level of detail in a PMP as more info is available
What is rolling wave planning?
Iterative process - work due soon is planned in detail and work in the future is planned at a higher level
What are the inputs of the sequence activities process?
PMP (schedule MP, scope baseline), project documents (activity attributes, activity list, assumptions, milestone list), EEFs (standards, PMIS, scheduling tools), OPAs (policies, templates, lessons learned)
What are the tools used for the sequence activities process?
PMIS (e.g., Microscoft project), precedence diagramming method, dependency determination and integration, leads and lags
What is the precedence diagramming method?
Schedule model - activities are nodes and graphically linked by logical relationship to show sequence (gantt with FS, FF, SS, SF)
What are mandatory dependencies?
Legally inherent to do work - e.g., cannot start building walls until foundation is down
What are discretionary dependencies?
Preferred logic - e.g., best to install electricity after plumbing
What are external dependencies?
Relationship of project with external activities usually outside of project team’s control - e.g., waiting for part to arrive from external vendor
What are internal dependencies?
Inside project team’s control
What is a lead?
Amount of time a successor activity can be advances (e.g., landscaping could start 2 weeks before punch list completion F-S)
What is a lag?
Amount of time a successor activity will be delayed with respect to predecessor activity (e.g., team may begin editing draft 15 days after the begin writing it start-start)