Scheduling & Resource Management (L16)

Question 1

What is a precedence table?

Answer 1

Lists activities and their pre-requisites

Question 2

Duration Estimation:
Define deterministic

Answer 2

Each activity has a fixed duration

Question 3

Duration Estimation:
Critical Path - Deterministic

Answer 3

Longest path from the start to the finish
Associated activities are critical

Question 4

Duration Estimation:
Total project duration - Deterministic

Answer 4

Longest path from the start to the finish

Question 5

Duration Estimation:
Define Stochastic

Answer 5

Durations defined by PDF
PDFs derived from data or elicitation

Question 6

Duration Estimation:
Total project duration - Stochastic

Answer 6

PDF with an expected value