Chapter 6 - Project Time Management

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____________ is a standard format for displaying project schedule information by listing project activities. Also, their corresponding start and finish dates in calendar form.

Gantt chart

What are 4 techniques/tools used to assist in schedule development?

Gantt chart, critical path analysis, critical chain scheduling, PERT analysis

Give an example of what this definition means: Duration includes actual amount of time worked on an activity plus elapsed time.

If someone asked an estimate of when you plan on finishing a book, you give an answer of 2 months instead of the 20 hours you would actually expect to spend reading the book.

What drives the completion date for the project?

Longest path Path that contains the critical tasks

_____________ - significant event that normally has no duration

Milestone

______________ - schematic display of the logical relationships among project activities and their sequences

Network diagram

Is every item from WBS listed on network diagram?

No, but it can be

________ - starting and ending point of an activity

Node

Which network diagram technique is particularly useful for visualizing certain types of time relationships?

PDM (precedence diagramming method)

What's the network diagramming technique where boxes represent activities?

PDM precedence diagramming method

What is the first step in project time management?

Planning how the schedule will be managed

________________ - determining the policies, procedures, and documentation that will be used for planning, executing, and controlling the project schedule.

Planning schedule management

What is the goal of defining activities?

Project team will understand all work it must do

_________________ involves the processes required to ensure timely completion of a project.

Project time management

____________________ - hierarchical structure that identifies the project's resources by category and type

Resource breakdown structure

What should you use to make milestones meaningful?

SMART criteria

____________ - amount of time an activity may be delayed • Without delaying a succeeding activity or the project finish date

Slack/float

Resources assigned to a task will affect the task duration estimate. True/False

True

Where do the activities on a network diagram come from?

WBS and activity definition process

Can a project have more than 1 critical path?

Yes

Can critical path for a project change as the project progresses?

Yes

Does every activity on the network diagram must be completed in order to finish the project?

Yes

Black diamond on a Gantt represents what?

a milestone

Thick black bars with arrows at beginning and end on a Gantt chart represents what?

a summary task

What do the letters on a network diagram represent?

activities with dependencies that are required to complete project

Information should be added as soon as it's available to the _____________.

activity attributes

________________ - provides more schedule-related information about each activity

activity attributes

______________ - tabulation of activities to be included on project schedule

activity list

What does activity list typically include?

activity name, identifier/number, and brief description

What do the arrows on a network diagram represent?

activity sequencing/relationships between tasks

______________/______________ - element of work normally found on the WBS that has expected duration, cost, and resource requirements

activity, task

One of the most important considerations in making activity duration estimates is?

availability of resources, especially human resources

Main outputs of ______________________: work performance information schedule forecasts change requests project management plan updates project documents updates organizational process assets updates

controlling the schedule

______________ - controlling and managing changes to the project schedule.

controlling the schedule

Critical path method (CPM) is also called what?

critical path analysis

Main outputs of ______________________: activity list activity attributes milestone list project management plan updates

defining activities

__________ involves identifying specific actions that will produce project deliverables in enough detail to determine resource/schedule estimates

defining activities

The triple constraint reflects the basic order of processes in project time management. Which are:

defining activities, sequencing activities, estimating activity resources, estimating activity durations

What is a technique to help managers make schedule trade-offs?

determining free slack and total slack for each project activity

Main outputs of ______________________: schedule baseline project schedule schedule data project calendars project management plan updates project documents updates

developing the schedule

______________ - analyzing activity sequences, activity resource estimates, and activity duration estimates to create the project schedule.

developing the schedule

Duration estimates are provided as a ____________ or ________.

discrete number, three-point estimate

___________ dependency is defined by project team.

discretionary

Light gray bars on a Gantt chart represents what?

duration of a task

____________________ - earliest possible time an activity can finish based on project network logic

early finish date

____________________ - earliest possible time an activity can start based on project network logic

early start date

How does effort and duration differ?

effort is the hours of work and duration is the time estimate on a calendar (effort for one day could be 80 hours if 10 people working on one thing)

Main outputs of ______________________: activity duration estimates project documents updates

estimating activity durations

______________ - estimating the number of work periods that are needed to complete individual activities.

estimating activity durations

Main outputs of ______________________: activity resource requirements resource breakdown structure project documents updates

estimating activity resources

What involves the quantity and type of resources (people, equipment, materials) that will be assigned to each activity?

estimating activity resources

What provides the basis for estimating activity durations?

estimating activity resources

______________ - estimating how many resources a project team should use to perform project activities

estimating activity resources

____________ dependencies - relationships between project and non-project activities

external

Task (B) can't finish until task (A) finishes is an example of which task dependency?

finish-to-finish (FF)

Task (B) can't start until task (A) finishes is an example of which task dependency?

finish-to-start (FS)

What are the 4 types of dependencies/relationships between activities?

finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish, and start-to-finish

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

free slack/float

____________________ - latest possible time an activity can be completed without delaying project finish date

late finish date

____________________ - latest possible time an activity might begin without delaying project finish date

late start date

Even though the critical path is the __________ path, it represents the ___________ time required to complete a project.

longest, shortest

__________ dependency - essential in the nature of work being performed on a project.

mandatory

Hard logic is another name for? Soft logic is another name for?

mandatory dependencies and discretionary dependencies

What are the 3 basic dependencies among project activities?

mandatory dependencies, discretionary dependencies, and external dependencies

___________ is useful for setting schedule goals and monitoring progress

milestones

Name 3 advantages of using PDM over AOA.

more popular avoids use of dummy activities shows different dependencies

What is the preferred technique for showing activity sequencing?

network diagrams

What does a 3-point estimate include?

optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic estimate

Main output of _________ is schedule management plan.

planning schedule management

What are the 7 main processes involved in project time management?

planning schedule management, defining activities, sequencing activities, estimating activity resources, estimating activity durations, developing the schedule, controlling the schedule

The ______________ generally includes: project schedule model development, scheduling methodology and the scheduling tools to use when developing project schedule model, level of accuracy and units of measure, control thresholds, rules of performance measurements, reporting formats, process descriptions

project management plan

What are 2 other common names for network diagrams?

project schedule network diagrams/PERT charts

Arrows connecting symbols on a Gantt chart represents what?

relationship/dependency between the tasks

People, activities, and materials are examples of what?

resources

Inputs needed for __________________: • Schedule management plan • Activity list/attributes • Project scope statement • Milestone list • Organizational process assets

sequencing activities

Main outputs of ______________________: project schedule network diagrams project documents updates

sequencing activities

The _________ process involves: Evaluating reasons for dependencies and the different types of dependencies

sequencing activities

______________ - identifying and documenting the relationships between project activities

sequencing activities

What does SMART of SMART criteria stand for?

specific measurable assignable realistic time-framed

Task (B) can't finish until task (A) starts is an example of which task dependency?

start-to-finish (SF)

Task (B) can't start until task (A) starts is an example of which task dependency?

start-to-start (SS)

Name the 5 key points of using project milestones.

1. define them early 2. keep them small and frequent 3. should be binary 4. set of milestones are all-encompassing 5. monitor critical path

What are the 3 steps to calculate the critical path?

1. develop good network diagram 2. estimate the duration of each activity 3. add the durations for all activities on each path through network diagram the longest path is critical path

• Networking diagramming technique • Activities are represented by arrows and connected at points called nodes • Used to illustrate sequence of activities The above is describing what format of network diagram?

AOA (activity-on-arrow) or ADM (arrow diagramming method)

What is required input to all other time management processes?

Activity information

__________ - 2 or more activities follow a single node __________ - 2 or more nodes precede a single node

Bursts, Merges

_____________ - Network diagramming technique used to predict total project duration; Helps you combat project schedule overruns

CPM critical path method

Is the schedule management plan broad and informal or formal and detailed?

Can be either

________________ - series of activities that determine the earliest time that the project can be completed • It's the longest path through the network diagram • Has the least amount of slack/float

Critical path

___________ - identifying the specific activities that the project team members and stakeholders must perform to produce the project deliverables

Defining activities

_____________/________________ - sequencing of project activities and tasks

Dependency/relationship

Outputs: • Project schedule • Schedule baseline • Schedule data • Project calendars • Project management plan updates • Project documents updates The above of outputs of which project time management process?

Developing the schedule

The goal of ______________ is to provide a basis for monitoring project progress for the time dimension of the project.

Developing the schedule

What project time management process determines the start and end dates of the project and its activities?

Developing the schedule

_________ is entered into the Duration column _________ is entered into the Work column

Duration, Effort

AOA only uses which dependency?

FS finish-to-start

True/False Critical path method includes all critical paths.

False

What is a major disadvantage of Gantt charts?

they often don't show dependencies

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

total slack/float

When estimating activity durations, what are 2 things to review?

• Past project information • Accuracy of the duration estimates so far for the project


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