Project Management Chapter 5
Activity sequencing involves reviewing the activity list and attributes, project scope statement, and milestone list to determine the relationships or dependencies between activities.
True
Critical chain scheduling considers limited resources when creating a project schedule.
True
Discretionary dependencies are defined by the project team.
True
Ideally, members of Scrum teams should be 100% dedicated to the project.
True
The main disadvantage of ____ is that it can end up lengthening the project schedule, because starting some tasks too soon often increases project risk and results in rework.
fast tracking
Slack or ____ is the amount of time an activity may be delayed without delaying a succeeding activity or the project finish date.
float
In an AOA network diagram, a(n) ____ occurs when two or more nodes precede a single node.
merge
Instead of creating a detailed schedule for all of the activities required to complete an entire project, agile teams focus on the most valuable work they can complete within each iteration using an approach called _______.
timeboxing
The project team should review an activity list and activity attributes with project stakeholders.
true
It is poor practice to use more than one approach for creating a cost estimate.
false
If a project network diagram has 4 paths of lengths equal to 10, 13, 15, and 17 weeks, what is the shortest time to finish the project?
17 weeks
____ estimates, also called top-down estimates, use the actual cost of a previous, similar project as the basis for estimating the cost of the current project.
Analogous
____ is a technique for making cost and schedule trade-offs to obtain the greatest amount of schedule compression for the least incremental cost.
Crashing
___________ is a technique for making cost and schedule trade-offs to obtain the greatest amount of schedule compression for the least incremental cost.
Crashing
Which of the following statements is true concerning a network diagram?
Every activity on it must be completed for the project to finish.
Project teams rarely estimate completion dates for milestones early in the scheduling process.
False
The goal of the activity definition process is to replace the scope statement.
False
A(n) _____________ is a distinct, scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
activity
Activity ____ provide schedule-related information about each activity, such as predecessors, successors, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, constraints, imposed dates, and assumptions related to the activity.
attributes
