Managing Project Scheduling

(a)   simply defined, involves the processes required to ensure timely completion of a project.

____________ grow out of the basic documents that initiate a project.

• Sequence Activities

• Plan Schedule Management

• Define Activities

• Estimate Activity Durations

• Develop Schedule

______________ is a tabulation of activities to be included in a project schedule.

• Sequence Activities

• activity attributes

• activity list

• Define Activities

A dependency or relationship pertains to the scheduling of project activities or tasks.

• TRUE

• FALSE

_______________ involve relationships between project activities that are generally inside the project team's control.

• Mandatory dependencies

• Discretionary dependencies

• External dependencies

• Internal dependencies

It is the process of estimating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources.

• Plan Schedule Management

• Control Schedule

• Estimate Activity Durations

• Develop Schedule

It is the process of monitoring the status of the project to update the project schedule and managing changes to the schedule baseline.

• Estimate Activity Durations

• Develop Schedule

• Control Schedule

• Define Activities

Project managers might make this mistake because they want to get working and because enumerating specific requirements can be difficult to get from customers or from the team.

• Failing to Unite the Team

• Poorly Founded Time Estimates

• Insufficient Requirements Detail

• No Formal Risk Management Strategy

• Refusing to Adapt

These estimates will be used to schedule resources and set deadlines. If the estimates are not well-founded, then there is a great risk of time and cost overruns.

• Insufficient Requirements Detail

• Failing to Unite the Team

• Poorly Founded Time Estimates

• Inaccurate Time Estimates because of Pressure

A common mistake is that the project and its importance are not well defined and communicated to the team.

• Insufficient Requirements Detail

• Failing to Unite the Team

• Poorly Founded Time Estimates

• Inaccurate Time Estimates because of Pressure