Project Management (Week 5)

What activities are found in project schedule planning? (Choose 3)

• Activity Definition

• Activity Sequencing

• Activity Duration

• Activity Costs

• Activity Diagram

Foundation of developing a project schedule is to...

• identify the planned activities to be completed

• identify the total time taken for the whole project to be completed

• identify the team members for each activity

What do we use to define those activities?

• Work Breakin Structure

• Work Breakup Structure

• Work Breakdown Structure

• Work Breakout Structure

Activity sequencing is the process of identifying the dependency relationship between activities

• True

• False

It is taught that activities are not carried out at the same time, but can they be run in parallel and why?

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What are the different techniques used to estimate duration of tasks? (Choose 2)

• Top down estimation

• Expert Judgment

• End-to-end estimate

• Tasks-oriented one by one calculation

What happens in a top down estimation? (Choose 2)

• High level estimation without much details

• References to similar projects or expertise

• Define detailed tasks to add up all the budget

• Bosses provide budget, project managers use it for estimation

There is another technique used, bottom-up estimation. What is the difference between (1) top-down estimation and (2) bottom-up estimation? (Choose 2)

• (1) Cheap and fast

  (2) Slow and expensive

• (1) Little details

  (2) Lots of details

• (1) For small projects

  (2) For large projects

• (1) No experience in existing projects

  (2) have prior references to existing projects

Describe what is a critical path? (Choose 2)

• Sequence of tasks that takes the longest time to project completion

• Sequence of tasks that do not have slack time

• Sequence of tasks that takes the shortest time to project completion

• Sequence of tasks that have slack time

In your best knowledge, what should a project manager do if the critical path takes longer than planned?

• Call for help from higher management

• If there is additional budget, pump in more resources

• Ignore and run the project as planned and hope the subsequent tasks will cover up

• Break-up tasks further to deliver part of the requirements first

• Change the critical path so that it still delivers as planned