Supply Chain Management Ch.5

pure project

A project where all members of the team work on the project full time is an example of which project organizational structure?

provides a method for evaluating the relative success of a project at a point in time

Earned value management, when properly applied, provides:

it is possible to have multiple critical paths

A project has how many critical paths?

proposed and completed schedule, budget performance measures, and completion steps or milestones.

A statement of work (SOW) should include:

immediate predecessors

Activities that need to be completed immediately before an activity are?

process

All of the following are types of project organization structures except:

time-cost model

Extending the critical path model to consider the trade-off between activity time and activity cost is known as the

sequence of activities and amount of time

Gantt charts show which of the following?

is on the critical path

If a delay of an activity delays the entire project, then this activity

Pure Project

If you are part of a self-contained project team working full time on a project, you are most likely experiencing the ...

immediate

In a network diagram, the activities that need to be completed directly before another activity are known as _______________ predecessors.

gantt

To show the amount of time associated with an activity, as well as the sequence of activities, a project manager could use a ___________ chart.

True

True or false: The process change area of projects accommodates activities such as new equipment purchases or upgrading current process.

Statement of Work

What term best describes the written description of the objectives to be achieved in a project?

three time estimates

When a single time estimate of an activity completion time is not reliable, you should use

4

When calculating the expected completion time, the most likely time is weighted ____ times more than the optimistic and pessimistic times.

Inventory Control

Which of the following is NOT a major project category?

Pure Project

Which project organization structure uses a self-contained team working full time on a single project?

Earned value management

Which technique combines measures of scope, schedule and cost for evaluating project progress?

develop a minimum-cost schedule for an entire project and to control expenditures during the project

The time-cost model attempts to...