Schedule Flashcards

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What should be considered for tailoring for project schedule management?

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Considerations for tailoring include but are not limited to: life cycle approach, resource availability, project dimensions and technology support.

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What is the plan schedule management process?

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Plan schedule management is the process of establishing the policies, procedures and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule.

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What is the define activities process?

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Define activities is the process of identifying and documenting the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables. This process is performed throughout the project.

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What is the control schedule process?

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Control schedule is the process of monitoring the status of the project to update the project schedule and managing changes to the schedule baseline. The key benefit of this process is that the schedule baseline is maintained throughout the project. This process is performed throughout the project.

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What is the purpose of the project schedule?

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The main purpose of the project schedule is to provide a detailed plan for how and when the project will deliver the results defined in the project scope. The project schedule is also an important tool for communicating and managing stakeholder expectations, team or individual assignments and as a basis for performance reporting.

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What’s the inputs to the plan schedule management process?

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Project charter
Project management plan (scope management plan, development approach)
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets

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What are the tools and techniques used in the plan schedule management process?

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Expert judgment
Data analysis (alternative analysis)
Meetings

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What does the schedule management plan establish?

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The schedule management plan is a component of the project management plan that establishes the criteria and the activities for developing, monitoring and controlling the schedule. The schedule management plan may be formal or informal, highly detailed or broadly framed based on the needs of the projects.

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Who should be included in a project schedule development meeting?

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Project teams may hold planning meetings to develop the schedule management plan. Participants of these meetings may include the project manager, the project sponsor, selected project team members, selected stakeholders, anyone with responsibility for schedule planning or execution, and others as needed.

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What can the schedule management plan establish?

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Project schedule model development
Release an iteration length
Level of accuracy
Units of measure
Organizational procedures links
Project schedule model maintenance
Control thresholds
Rules of performance measurement
Reporting formats

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What the inputs to the define activities process?

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Project management plan (schedule management plan, scope baseline)
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets

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What are the outputs to the define activities process?

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Activity list
Activity attributes
Milestone list
Change requests
Project management plan updates (schedule baseline, cost baseline)

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In the define activities process, what does decomposition accomplish?

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The define activities process defines the final outputs as activities rather than deliverables, as done in the create work breakdown structure process.

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What is the iterative process of increasing the level of detail in a project management plan as greater amounts of information and more accurate estimate become available called?

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Progressive elaboration

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What are the inputs to the define activities process?

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Project management plan (schedule management plan, scope baseline)
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets

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What is the purpose of the define activities process?

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The purpose of the define activities, processes to identify and document specific actions you need to take to produce project deliverables.

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What is rolling wave planning?

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Rolling wave planning is an iterative planning technique in which the near term work to be done is planned in detail, while future work is planned at a higher level.

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What is progressive elaboration?

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Progressive elaboration is the iterative process of increasing the level of detail in a planner as more information becomes available.

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What is decomposition?

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Decomposition is a technique used for dividing the project scope and deliverables into smaller, more manageable parts.

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What are the tools and techniques used in define activities process?

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Meetings
Expert judgment
Decomposition
Rolling wave planning

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What are the inputs to the sequence activities process?

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Project management plan (schedule management plan, scope baseline)
Activity attributes
Activity list
Assumptions log
Milestone list
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets

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What is the precedence diagramming method? (PDM)

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The precedence diagramming method is a technique used for constructing a schedule model in which activities are represented by nodes and are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are to be performed.

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What are mandatory dependencies?

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Mandatory dependencies are those that are legally or contractually required or inherent in the nature of the work. Mandatory dependencies often involve physical limitations and are sometimes referred to as hard logic or hard dependencies. The project team determines which dependencies are mandatory during the process. Mandatory dependencies should not be confused with assigning schedule constraints in the scheduling tool.

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What are leads and lags in the sequence activities process?

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Leads and legs are refinements applied during network analysis to develop a viable schedule by adjusting the start time of the successor activities. Leads are used to advance a successor activity with respect to the predecessor activity and lags are used where processors require a set period of time to elapse between the predecessors and the successes without work or resource impact.

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What is a finish to start logical relationship?

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A successor activity cannot start until a predecessor has finished

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What is a finish to finish logical relationship?

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A successive activity cannot finish until a predecessor has finished.

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What is a start to start logical relationship?

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A successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started

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What is a start to finish logical relationship?

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A successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started

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What are discretionary dependencies?

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Discretionary dependencies are based on best practices within a particular area where specific sequence is desired, even though there may be other acceptable sequences.

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What are external dependencies?

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External dependencies involve a relationship between projects, activities and non-project activities

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What are internal dependencies?

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Internal dependencies involve a precedence relationship between project activities and are generally inside the project team’s control

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What are the outputs of the sequence activities process?

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Project schedule network diagrams
Project documents updates

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What are the tools and techniques used in the sequence activities process?

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Precedence diagramming method
Leads and lags
Project management information systems
Dependency determination and integration

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What is analogous estimating?

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Analogous estimating is a technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project using historical data from a similar activity or project. This technique is frequently used to estimate project duration when there is a limited amount of detailed information about the project.

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What is parametric estimating?

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Parametric estimating uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables to calculate an estimate for activity parameters.

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What is 3 point estimating?

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Estimates may be improved when using 3 point estimating. This involves a formula to better estimate durations.
Optimistic estimate plus most likely estimate plus pessimistic estimate. All divided by three is equal to the time estimate.

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What is bottom up estimating?

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Bottom up estimating is done by aggregating the lower level components of the work breakdown structure WBS. The work within the activity is decomposed into more detail. The detailed durations are estimated and then these estimates are summed up.

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What are the inputs for the estimate activity durations process?

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Organizational process assets
Project documents
Enterprise environmental factors
Project management plan

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What the outputs for the estimate activity durations process?

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Project documents updates
Duration estimates
Basis of estimates

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What are the tools and techniques used in estimate activity durations process?

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Analogous estimating
3 point estimating
Parametric estimating
Bottom up estimating
Expert judgment
Meetings
Decision making
Data analysis

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What is the critical path method?

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Critical path method is used to estimate the least possible amount of time to complete the project and to determine the amount of flexibility (or, float) within the schedule.

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What are the inputs to the develop schedule process?

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Project management plan
Organizational process assets
Project documents
Enterprise environmental factors
Agreements

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What are the outputs to the develop schedule process?

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Schedule baseline
Project schedule
Scheduled data
Project management plan updates
Project calendars
Project documents updates
Change requests

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What are the tools and techniques for the develop schedule process?

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Schedule network analysis
Leads and lags
Critical path method
Resource optimization
Schedule compression
Data analysis
Project management information systems
Agile release planning

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What is the definition of free float?

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The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any successor or violating a schedule constraint.

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Which type of float is described as the amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed or extended from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint?

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On any network path, the total float or schedule flexibility is measured by the amount of time that is schedule. Activity can be delayed or extended from its early start date without delaying the project finish day or violating a schedule constraint.

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What is the critical path method?

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The critical path method is used to estimate the minimum project duration and determine the amount of schedule flexibility on the logical network paths within the schedule model. The schedule network analysis technique calculates the early start early finish, late start and late finish dates for all activities without regard for any resource limitations by performing a forward and backward pass analysis through the schedule network.

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What is resource leveling?

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Resource leveling is a resource optimization technique in which adjustments are made to the project schedule to optimize the allocation of resources and which may affect the critical path.

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What is trend analysis?

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Trend analysis examines project performance over time to determine whether performance is improving or deteriorating. Graphical analysis techniques are valuable for understanding performance to date and for comparing to future performance goals in the form of completion dates.

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What are the inputs to the control schedule process?

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Project management plan
Work performance data
Project documents
Organizational process assets

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What are the outputs to the control schedule process?

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Project documents updates
Change requests
Schedule forecasts
Project management plan updates
Work performance information