Project Management Chapter 6

How are they linked?

An activity is an element in the project that consumes time, work packages from WBS are used to build activities found in the project network

Why bother creating a WBS?

Because WBS forces you to identify all tasks, deliverables, and rank in importance, they reinforce each other

Free Slack VS Total Slack

Free slack - the amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying any immediate following activity total slack - how long it can be delayed without delaying the total project

Why are lags used in developing project networks?

It's the minimum amount of work time a dependent activity must be delayed to begin or end, and occurs with long duration activities, and constrain the start/finish of an activity

Why is slack important to project manager?

PM pay close attention to the critical path activities to make sure they are not delayed, slack tells us amount of time an activity can be delayed and not delay the project

WBS vs Project Network

Project network is the tool used for planning, scheduling, monitoring project process The network is developed from the info collected for the WBS and is a graphic flow chart

What is a hammock activity

Spans over a segment of a project and used to identify the use of fixed resources or costs over a segment of the project ie. inspections