AICP Planning Management

What are the 3 key elements of a DELPHI study

1) structure of information flow (surveys, respondents, & project manager) 2)feedback loop 3) participant anonymity and expertise

What is a cost-benefit analysis?

A management study that evaluates the benefits of a solution (including programatic & personnel) costs to the value / benefit of the outcome.

What is a cohort survival or logitudinal study?

A study that evaluates the same group, with the same base trait (ie: birth date) for a long period of time. May be compared to another group representing a larger population universe.

What is a DELPHI study

An analysis technique that utilizes surveys & anonymous experts

Why is ZBB good for government?

Because it helps ensure that projects are still needed & helps prevent spending from spiraling out of control.

What is CPM?

Critical Path Method

Why is a cost-benefit analysis useful

Determine if a project/solution is worth implementing.

What is the benefit of a fiscal impact analysis

Estimates the difference between the costs of providing services to a new development and the revenues—taxes and user fees, for example—that will be generated by the development.

What is a fiscal impact analysis?

Estimates the impact of a development or a land use change on the costs and revenues of governmental units serving the development.

What does ERG stand for?

Existence, Relatedness, Growth

Why does the task increment escalate in 10s in PERT

In order that new tasks may be inserted as project progresses

What is a shift-share study?

Land use study that evaluates the shift in a given issue's share (ie: population/employment) from one area to another.

What two management principles deal with a hierachy of needs?

Maslow & ERG

What is the primary differences between Maslow & ERG?

Maslow: a large # multiple steps, each achieved at the completion of the next, all people act same. ERG: only 3 steps, steps may overlap or parrallel, and all people different

What two project management techniques model a network/sequence of parrell & corresponding tasks?

PERT & CPM

What is the difference between PERT & CPM

PERT: VARIABLE task times. CPM: FIXED task times.

What is PERT?

Program Evaluation & Review Technique

What is a Gantt chart?

Schematic that shows the steps/tasks of project on a parrelle, horizontal model.

A DELPHI study can best study what type of problem

Simplistic, not mult-faceted

What role does a WBS play in project planning

Used prior to a CPM or PERT in order to identify the tasks

What is a WBS

Work Breakdown Stucture. It is a form of a Gantt chart, by which multi tasks are broken down and identifies

What is ZBB

Zero Based Budgeting. It is a budget process which assumes that the baseline budget each fiscal cycle is zero.

What does a fiscal impact analysis evaluate?

revenues, expenditures, land values—and characteristics of the development or land use change—e.g., type of land use, distance from central facilities.