Schedule Management Flashcards
What are the 6 processes associated with the Schedule Management process group?
Plan Schedule Management Define Activities Sequence Activities Estimate Activity Durations Develop Schedule Control Schedule
Which of the 18 components of the Project Management Plan is created in the Plan Schedule Management process?
Schedule Management Plan
What are the inputs to the Define Activities process?
Schedule Management Plan
Scope Baseline
What are the inputs to the process?
Activity List
Activity Attributes
Milestone List
What are the inputs to the Estimate Activity Durations process?
Activity List
Resource Requirements
Resource Calendars
What are the inputs to the Develop Schedule process?
Activity List
Duration Estimates
Project Schedule Network Diagram
What are the tools associated with the Control Schedule process?
Iteration Burndown Chart
What are the tools associated with the Develop Schedule process?
Critical Path Method Resource Optimization Leads and Lags Schedule Compression Agile Release Planning
What are the tools associated with the Estimate Activity Duration process?
Analogous (top-down) Estimating
Parametric Estimating
3 Point Estimating
Bottom Up Estimating
What are the tools associated with the Sequence Activities process?
Precedence Diagram Method
Dependency Determination
Leads and Lags
What are the tools associated with the Define Activities process?
Decomposition
Rolling Wave Planning
What are the outputs from the Plan Schedule Management process?
Schedule Management Plan
What are the outputs from the Define Activities process?
Activity List
Activity Attributes
Milestone List
What are the outputs from the Sequence Activities process?
Project Schedule Network Diagram
What are the outputs from the Estimate Activity Durations process?
Duration Estimates
What are the outputs from the Develop Schedule process?
Project Schedule
Schedule Baseline
What are the outputs from the Control Schedule process?
Work Performance Information
Schedule Forecasts
Change Requests
Which process group does the process Plan Schedule Management belong to?
Planning
Which process group does the process Define Activities belong to?
Planning
Which process group does the process Sequence Activities belong to?
Planning
Which process group does the process Estimate Activity Durations belong to?
Planning
Which process group does the process Develop Schedule belong to?
Planning
Which process group does the process Control Schedule belong to?
Monitoring and Controlling
What are the four main types of activity dependencies?
Mandatory
Discretionary
External
Internal
A dependency that cannot be broken is a ___________ dependency.
Mandatory
A dependency that is not required but follows a best practice is a _________ dependency.
Discretionary
A dependency that the project team can control is a ___________ dependency.
Internal
A dependency that is outside of the project’s control and scope is a ________ dependency.
External
If an activity is allowed to start before its dependent activity is completed then it has a ______.
Lead
The gap between 2 dependent activities is called a ______.
Lag
An estimation method for an activity that is based on a previous project is called _________ ___________?
Analogous Estimating
An estimation technique for an activity that is based on linear extrapolation is called ________ ___________.
Parametric Estimating
What does PERT stand for?
Program Evaluation and Review Technique
What is the formula for a beta distribution 3 point estimate?
(O+4R+P)/6
What is the formula for a triangular distribution 3 point estimate?
(O+R+P)/3
What is the formula for the standard deviation of a 3 point distribution?
(P-O)/6
What is the critical path?
The combination of activities that cannot be delayed without delaying the project completion date.
Who invented the Critical Chain Method?
Eli Goldratt
Estimating each activity aggressively and adding a lump-sum buffer is called the ________ __________ Method.
Critical Chain
Name 2 types of resource optimization.
Resource Leveling
Resource Smoothing
Which type of resource optimization is more disruptive, resource leveling or resource smoothing?
Resource Leveling
Which resource optimization technique does not change the critical path and the project end date?
Resource Smoothing
Which schedule compression technique increases cost?
Crashing
Which schedule compression technique increases risk?
Fast tracking
Which schedule compression technique involves adding more resources to an activity?
Crashing
Which schedule compression technique involves adjusting the schedule so that some of the activities overlap?
Fast tracking
Which type of graphical representation of the schedule is best suited for brief, high level presentations?
Milestone chart
Which type of graphical representation of the project schedule shows project activities as bars on a calendar?
Gantt Chart
What is the most detailed graphical representation of a project schedule?
Project Schedule Network Diagram
What tool is used by Agile teams to show the team’s progress on completing the work on the backlog?
Iteration Burndown Chart
Schedule Performance Index and Schedule Variance are both types of what?
Work Performance Information
What is Float or Slack?
The amount of time an activity can slip before it changes the critical path.
How much float does an activity on the critical path have?
Zero
What is Free Float or Free Slack?
The amount of time an activity can slip before affecting the early start of dependent activities.
What is the Delphi Technique?
A way to gather expert judgement where each participant does not know who the other participants are.
What is an heuristic?
A rule of thumb.
What is Lag?
The delay between an activity and the subsequent one.
