Project Schedule Mgmt

Question 1

What are the main outputs of the plan schedule management process?

Answer 1

Schedule management plan

Question 2

What are the main outputs of the device activities process?

Answer 2

Activity list, activity attributes, milestone list

Question 3

What are the main outputs of the sequence activities process?

Answer 3

Project schedule network diagram

Question 4

What are the main outputs of the estimate activity durations process?

Answer 4

Activity duration estimates

Question 5

What are the main outputs of the develop schedule process?

Answer 5

Schedule baseline, project schedule, schedule data, project calendars

Question 6

What are the main outputs of the control schedule process?

Answer 6

Work performance information, change request

Question 7

Describe the schedule management plan

Answer 7

Documents the steps needed to conduct the other 5 processes - how the project defines activities, sequences activities, estimates resources, develops schedule, and controls schedule.

Also states how the measure schedule, and fix it if there are variances

Question 8

Describe decomposition as part of the define activities process

Answer 8

Taking work packages within the WBS and breaking them into specific activities

Question 9

Describe rolling wave planning

Answer 9

A form of progressive elaboration used in the define activities process group - work packages happening later in the project will be decomposed when more details are known

Question 10

Describe activity list

Answer 10

Main output of define activities process. A list of all scheduled activities on the project. Each activity should map to only one work package, and have a unique identifying number

Question 11

Describe activity attributes

Answer 11

Main output of define activities process group. More detailed information about each individual activity.

Can include resources, location, cost, assumptions, constraints, leads/lags, and relationships

Question 12

Describe milestone list

Answer 12

Consists of all project or phase milestones. A milestone is an activity that has no duration and is used to represent a major accomplishment or event.

Question 13

Describe PDM used in the Sequence Activities process

Answer 13

Precedence Diagramming Method. Used to create the network diagram.

Question 14

Describe AON PDM

Answer 14

Activity-On-Node precedence diagramming method. Boxes used to represent activities, with numbers above them representing durations.

Question 15

Name the four types of activity relationships

Answer 15

Finish to start (FS), finish to finish (FF), start to start (SS), start to finish (SF)

Question 16

Why are the four types of dependencies?

Answer 16

Mandatory, discretionary, external, internal

Question 17

Describe leads and lags in the sequence activities process

Answer 17

Leads: an overlap between activities (eg, you can start an activity halfway through the previous)

Lags: delays between activities (eg, needing to wait for a time after completion to begin the next activity)

Question 18

Describe project schedule network diagrams

Answer 18

A diagram showing all the activities, and the order in which they are performed

Question 19

Describe the basis of estimates

Answer 19

Output of “estimate activity durations”. It is how the estimates were developed and their ranges. It can also include assumptions and constraints.

Question 20

Describe project calendars

Answer 20

Displays the working days and shifts for the activities.