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late start date

The ____ for an activity is the latest possible time an activity might begin without delaying the project finish date.

PDM

The ____ is a network diagramming technique in which boxes represent activities

External

____ dependencies involve relationships between project and non-project activities

feeding buffers

Critical chain scheduling protects tasks on the critical chain from being delayed by using ____, which consist of additional time added before tasks on the critical chain that are preceded by non-critical-path tasks.

Bursts

____ occur when two or more activities follow a single node

red

Project management software highlights the critical path in ____ on a network diagram

finish-to-finish

In a ____ relationship, one task cannot finish before another finishes

resource breakdown structure

A ____ is a hierarchical structure that identifies the project's resources by category and type.

start-to-start

In a ____ relationship, the "from" activity cannot start until the "to" activity is started

finish-to-start

In a ____ relationship, the "from" activity must finish before the "to" activity can start

right

On a network diagram, all arrowheads should face toward the ____.

duration estimates

The activity list, activity attributes, activity resource requirements, resource calendars, project scope statement, enterprise environmental factors, and organizational process assets all include information that affect ____.

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There are ____ main processes involved in project time management

Mandatory

____ dependencies are inherent in the nature of the work being performed on a project

Discretionary

____ dependencies are sometimes referred to as soft logic and should be used with care since they may limit later scheduling options

Developing the schedule

____ involves analyzing activity sequences, activity resource estimates, and activity duration estimates to create the project schedule

Controlling the schedule

____ involves controlling and managing changes to the project schedule

Fast tracking

____ involves doing activities in parallel that you would normally do in sequence

Estimating activity durations

____ involves estimating the number of work periods that are needed to complete individual activities

Sequencing activities

____ involves evaluating the reasons for dependencies and the different types of dependencies.

Sequencing activities

____ involves identifying and documenting the relationships between project activities

Defining activities

____ involves identifying the specific activities that the project team members and stakeholders must perform to produce the project deliverables

Critical chain scheduling

____ is a method of scheduling that considers limited resources when creating a project schedule and includes buffers to protect the project completion date

Critical path analysis

____ is a network diagramming technique used to predict total project duration

Crashing

____ is a technique for making cost and schedule trade-offs to obtain the greatest amount of schedule compression for the least incremental cost

Total slack

____ is the amount of time an activity can be delayed from its early start without delaying the planned project finish date

Free slack

____ is the amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following activities

PERT

____ use(s) probabilistic time estimates—duration estimates based on using optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic estimates of activity durations—instead of one specific or discrete duration estimate.

Tracking Gantt chart

Project managers often illustrate progress with a ____ showing key deliverables and activities.

Parkinson's Law

____ states that work expands to fill the time allowed

Defining activities

____ results in supporting detail to document important product information as well as assumptions and constraints related to specific activities

project schedules

Project managers must use discipline to control ____.

controlling the schedule

Outputs from ____ include work performance measurements, organizational process assets updates, change requests, project management plan updates, and project document updates

activity attributes

The ____ provide(s) schedule-related information about each activity, such as predecessors, successors, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, constraints, imposed dates, and assumptions

longest; shortest

The critical path is the ____ path through a network diagram, and it represents the ____ time it takes to complete a project

defining activities

The goal of ____ is to ensure that the project team has complete understanding of all the work they must do as part of the project scope so they can start scheduling the work

schedule control

The goal of ____ is to know the status of the schedule, influence the factors that cause schedule changes, determine that the schedule has changed, and manage changes when they occur

defining activities

The main outputs of the ____ process are an activity list, activity attributes, and milestone list.

developing the schedule

The ultimate goal of ____ is to create a realistic project schedule that provides a basis for monitoring project progress for the time dimension of the project

Gantt charts

____ provide(s) a standard format for displaying project schedule information by listing project activities and their corresponding start and finish dates in a calendar format