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What are the inputs to Plan Schedule Management?

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Project Mgmt Plan
Project Charter
EEFs
OPAs

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What are the 7 Time Process steps?

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  1. Plan Schedule Management
  2. Define activities
  3. Sequence activities
  4. Estimate activity resources
  5. Estimate activity durations
  6. Develop schedule
  7. Control schedule
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What are inputs to define activities?

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Schedule mgmt plan

Scope baseline

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What are tools and activities to define activities?

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Decomposition
Rolling Wave Planning
Expert judgement

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What are outputs to define activities?

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Activity List

Milestone List

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What is Rolling Wave Planning?

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Concept that utilizes the progressive elaboration planning in planning.

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What is Control Account?

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A point placed in a WBS above the work package level to help estimating when all the details aren’t immediately available at the work package level.

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What is Planning Packaging?

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The planning package is a piece of the WBS between the control account and the work package.

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Enter cards about Sequence Activities.

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TBD

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What is a network diagram?

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A network diagram is a schematic of project activities and is the tool used to evaluate schedule compression techniques such as crashing and fast tracking.

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What are the five types of diagramming types?

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Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
Activity on Node (AON)
Arrow Diagramming Method (ADM)
Activity on Arrow (AOA)
Activity on line (AOL)
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What is the GERT diagramming?

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Diagramming technique that uses feedback loops as iterations are completed.

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What are four types of predecessors?

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Finish to start: A must be completed before B begins
Finish to Finish: B cannot finish until A is finished
Start to start: When A starts, B can start
Start to finish: A starts before B finish

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What is lag?

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Lag is delay between activities

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What is lead?

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Use lead when something can begin bf its predecessor is done.

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What are the inputs to Estimate Activity Resources?

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  1. Schedule mgmt plan
  2. Activity list
  3. Resource calendar
  4. Risk register
  5. Activity cost est
  6. Activity attributes
  7. EEFs
  8. OPAs
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What are tools and techs for Estimate Activity Resources?

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1 Expert judgement
2 Alternative analysis
3 Published estimating data
4 Bottom up estimating
5 Proj mgmt software
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What are outputs for Estimate Activity Resources?

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Activity resource reqs

Resource breakdown structure

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What is a resource breakdown structure?

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Displays a breakdown by resource type across organizations

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What are four different types of estimating methods?

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1 Analogous (aka Top down): Time or cost est that has no signif detail base on a past project. Advantage is that it can be done quickly.

  1. Bottom up: Starts with lowest level of detail and works upwards to get total estimate. Very detailed but time consuming.
  2. Parametric: Est based on existing parameter usu based upon industry standard or experience.
  3. Computerized: Computerized tool that simulates project outcome.
  4. Computerized - Monte Carlo
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What is PERT?

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A weighted average approach that uses three activities per activity.
Optimistic, pessimistic, most likely. Such that:

(O+P+(4xM)) / 6

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What are inputs to Estimate Activity Durations?

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Schedule mgmt plan
Activity list
Activity resource reqs
Resource calendar
Risk register
Resource breakdown structure
Proj scope stmt
Activity attributes
EEFs
OPAs
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What are tools and techs for Estimate Activity Durations?

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Expert judgement
Analogous estimating
Parametric estimating
Three point estimating
Group decision making techs
Reserve analogous
23
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What are inputs to develop project schedule?

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Schedule mgmt plan
Activity list
Project schedule network diagram
Activity resource reqs
Resource calendar
Activity duration estimates
Risk register
Project staff assignments
Resource breakdown schedule
24
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What are tool and techs to develop project schedule?

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Schedule network analysis
Critical path method
Critical chain method
Resource optimization techiques
Modeling techniques
Lag and leads
Schedule compression
Schedule tool
25
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What are outputs to develop project schedule?

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Schedule baseline
Project schedule
Project calendar

26
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What is the critical path method?

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Used with scheduling environments in which a forward pass establishes the earliest the activities can start and finish and a backward pass establishes the latest activities can start and finish.

27
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What is slack?

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Amount of time that an activity can slip or be delayed without delaying the finish date of the project. If an activity has no slack its on critical path and if it slips, it pushes out the finish date.

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What is schedule compression techniques?

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After schedule has been put together you may have to compress teh schedule to achieve an aggressive time goal.
Two main techs are fast tracking and crashing.
Crashing - Puts more pp on the critical path items, excluding any resourcing activities
Fast Track - Analyzes the network diag and sequencing of the activities to take into considerable benefits from adjusting the sequence to accelerate completion of work.

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What is critical chain method?

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Emphasizes resource flexibility by using duration buffers for resources and leveling over the course of the project to accommodate limited resources.

30
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What is resource leveling?

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Levels activities / task in a given day / week based on number of people available on that day / week.

31
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What is resource smoothing?

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Similar to resource leveling it that it removes peaks/valleys but the diff is the focus on predefined limits rather than just preventing overallocation of resources.

32
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What is a logic bar chart?

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Also called the Gantt chart used to track day to day details of the project.

33
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What is a milestone schedule?

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Typically used in executive reporting (summary of details) - each milestone has 0 duration.

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What is a summary schedule?

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Shows an aggregate view of the various activities at the summary level.

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What is a hammock activity?

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Summary activity that encompasses all of the tasks or activities beneath it.

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What are the inputs to Control Schedule?

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Proj mgmt plan
Proj schedule
Work performance data
Project calendar
Schedule data
OPAs
37
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What are the tools and techs to Control Schedule?

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Performance reviews
Proj mgmt software
Resource optimization techs
Modeling techs
Leads and lags
Schedule compression
Scheduling tools
38
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What are the output to Control Schedule?

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Work performance information
Schedule forecasts
Change requests
Project mgmt plan updates
OPA updates
39
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What is formula for Time standard deviation?

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(P-O)/6

40
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What is time formula for variance?

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((P-O)/6)squared

41
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What is time formula for weighted average?

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(P+O+(4xM))/6

42
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What is time formula for simple averaging (used in a triangular distrib)?

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(P+O+M)/3

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