Chapter 6

activity attributes

Predecessors, successors, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, constraints, imposed dates, and assumptions are all examples of ________

SMART criteria

Specific Measurable Assignable Realistic Time-framed

planning schedule management

This process involves determining the policies, procedures, and documentation that will be used for planning, executing, and controlling the project schedule

defining activities

process that involves identifying specific activities that the project team members and stakeholders must perform to produce the project deliverables. The main outputs of this process are milestone list, project management plan

controlling the schedule

process that involves the controlling and managing changes to the project schedule

external dependencies

relationship between project and non-project activities. The installation of a new information system depends on the hardware being delivered

discretionary

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

finish-to-finish

In this type of relationship, one task cannot finish before another finishes.

red

MS Project highlights the critical path in ____ on a network diagram.

total slack

The amount of time an activity can be delayed from its early start without delaying the planned project finish date is referred to as ________.

free slack

The amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following activities is referred to as ________.

longest; shortest

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

work breakdown structure

The deliverable-oriented listing (depicted as the rows in MS Project) of the work involved in a project that defines the total scope of the project is called the:

defining activities

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

critical path

The series of activities that determines the earliest time by which the project can be completed is called the project's ___________.

PERT

This method/tool uses probabilistic time estimates — duration estimates based on using optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic estimates of activity duration — to assist project managers in creating specific duration estimates to enter into a Project plan.

white diamond

What symbol on a Gantt chart represents a slipped milestone

tracking gantt chart

What type of diagram shows planned and actual project schedule information?

mandatory

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

fast tracking

____ involves scheduling activities in parallel that would normally be completed sequentially.

bursts

____ occur when two or more activities follow a single node.

critical path scheduling

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

dummy activities

____________________ have no duration and no resources but are occasionally needed on AOA network diagrams to show logical relationships between activities.

discretionary dependencies

defined by the project team. A team might follow good practice and and not start the detailed design of a new information system until the user signs off on it

duration

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

three point estimate

optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic

developing the schedule

process that involves analyzing all previous documentation to produce a project schedule

estimating activity resources

process that involves estimating how many resources a project team should use to preform project activities. Outputs are activity resource requirements, resource breakdown structure

crashing

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

Slack or float

the amount of time an activity might be delayed without delaying a succeeding activity or the project finish date

effort

the number of workdays or work hours required to complete a task

finish-to-start

you cannot start editing a technical report until someone else completes the first draft. What type of dependency does this represent?

network diagram

A ____________________ is a schematic (pictorial) display of the logical relationships among, or sequencing of, project activities.

milestone

A significant event shown as a row in a WBS that normally has no duration or resources associated with it is called a _______.

mandatory dependencies

A task must be completed before another can be started. You cannot test code before it is written

estimating activity durations

process that involves estimation the number of work periods that are needed to complete an individual activity

sequencing activities

process that involves identifying and documenting the relationships between project activities. The main outputs of this process are the schedule network diagram and project document updates