Chapter 6

Mandatory dependencies

- sequencing of project activities or tasks that are inherent in the nature of the work being done on the project

Duration

- the actual amount of time worked on an activity plus elapsed time

Early start date

- the earliest possible time and activity can start based on the Project network logic

Gantt chart

- a standard format for displaying project schedule information by listing project activities and their corresponding start and finish dates in a calendar format. Sometimes referred to as bar charts

External dependencies

- sequencing of project activities or tasks that involve relationships between project and non-project activities

finish-to-finish

Describes a relationship where the "from" activity must be finished before the "to" activity can be finished

As the project manager for a software development project, you are helping to develop the project schedule. You decide that writing code for system should not start until users sign off on the analysis work. What type of dependency is this?

Discretionary

A project team might follow good practice and not start the detailed design of a new information system until the users sign off on all of the analysis work. This is an example of a(n) ________ dependency.

Discretionary dependencies

You can start editing a technical report until someone else completes the first draft. What type of dependency does this represent?

Finish to start

forward pass

In critical path analysis, determines the early start and early finish dates for each activity.

Activity attributes

Predecessors, successors, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, constraints, and post dates, and assumptions are all examples of________________.

activity duration estimating one of the six planning main processes

Processes of project time management involves estimating the number of work periods that are needed to complete individual activities?

Baseline dates

The planned schedule dates for activities in a tracking Gantt chart

Critical path method (CPM)

a network diagramming technique used to predict total project duration.

Multitasking

occurs when a resource works on more than one task at a time.

Burst

- when a single node is followed by two or more activities on network diagram

Feeding buffers

-- additional time added before task on the critical path that are preceded by noncritical path tasks

Activity- on -Arrow (AO A)

A network diagramming technique in which activities are represented by arrows and connected at points called nodes to illustrate the sequence of activities also called arrow diagramming method(ADM)

Backward pass

A project network diagramming technique that determines the late start and late finish dates for each activity in a similar fashion

Crashing

A technique of making cost and schedule trade-offs to obtain the greatest amount of schedule compression for the smallest incremental costs

activity resource estimating one of the six planning main processes

Activity resource requirements, a resource breakdown structure, requested changes, and updates to the activity attributes and resource calendars are the main outputs of ________.

Critical chain scheduling

Is the method of schedule and that considers Limited resources when creating a project schedule and includes buffers to protect the Project completion date.

activity sequencing

Processes of project time management involves identifying and documenting the relationships between project activities

activity definition one of the six main planning processes

Processes of project time management involves identifying the specific activities that the project team members and stakeholders must perform to produce the project deliverables?

There are many issues involved in controlling changes to project schedules. It is important first to ensure that the project schedule is ________.

Realistic

Discretionary dependencies

Sequencing the projects activities or task defined by the project team and used with care since they may limit later scheduling options

Defining activities

What is the first process when planning a project schedule

Merge

When two or more nodes precede a single node on the network diagram

resource breakdown structure

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

PERT

a net work diagramming technique used to predict the total project duration.

network diagram

a schematic display of the logical relationships among, or sequencing of, project activities.

Free slack

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

Tracting Gantt chart

diagram shows planned and actual project schedule information

milestone

in a project is a significant event that normally has no duration.

fast tracking

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

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

is false

Duration and effort are synonymous terms

is false?

On several information technology projects, a group of activities all start simultaneously, such as the many tasks that occur when a new system goes live. This is an example of which type of relationship?

start-to-start

Parkinson's Law

states that work expands to fill the time allowed.

On a Gantt chart represents a slipped milestone?

white diamond