Schedule Flashcards
What are dependencies?
Logical relationships between activities in a project
What is a lag?
What is a lead?
Lag: Waiting time inserted between activities
Lead: How soon an activity can start before its predecessor activity is completed
What are milestones?
Identified points in the project schedule where particular objectives should be met
According to the Process Groups model, what processes are involved in schedule management?
Plan Schedule Management
Define Activities
Sequence Activities
Estimate Activity Duration’s
Develop Schedule
Control Schedule
What are the results of a properly planned and managed project?
All or most deliverables are completed and delivered in the planned time-frames, within budget and with the agreed quality attributes
The number of changes to the project are within expectations
Project outputs are largely accepted and stakeholders seem satisfied
The cadence of development, testing, and implementation is appropriate to the specific project and to the development approach and life cycle selected
Measurements indicate the project is performing as planned
Project benefits can be realized in the timeframe they were planned for
What key artifact results from the Plan Schedule Management process?
Schedule management plan (formal or informal)
How is decomposition used in the Define Activities process? How is this different than decomposition done during the Create WBS process?
Work packages are being broken down into activities. In Create WBS, deliverables are being broken down into work packages (smaller deliverables).
What artifact results from the Sequence Activities process?
Project schedule network diagram
What do network diagrams show?
The network diagram shows just dependencies between activities
If estimates and leads and lags are added to the diagram later in the schedule management process, it can also show the critical path
If plotted out against time (is made calendar-based), the network diagram is a time-scaled schedule network diagram
What are the four types of logical relationships between activities in the precedence diagramming method?
Finish-to-start (FS): An activity must finish before the successor can start
Start-to-start (SS): An activity must start before the successor can start
Finish-to-finish (FF): An activity must finish before the successor can finish
Start-to-finish (SF): An activity must start before the successor can finish
What are mandatory dependencies?
The order in which activities must be done, due to the inherent nature of the work or as required by a contract
Also called hard logic
What are discretionary dependencies?
The order in which the organization has chosen to have work performed
Also called preferred, preferential, or soft logic
Define external dependencies and internal dependencies.
External: Dependencies based on the needs of a party outside the project
Internal: Dependencies based on the needs of the project; may be under the control of the project team
What artifacts result from the Estimate Activity Duration’s process (predictive environment)?
Activity attributes
Basis of estimates
Updates to project documents
What artifacts result from activity estimating in an adaptive environment?
Prioritized backlog of user stories
Coarse-grained estimates of user stories
Release goal focused on customer value
Target release date or release number
What are some inputs to Estimate Activity Durations?
Activity list and activity attributes
Assumption log
Lessons learned register
Resource breakdown structure
Resource requirements
Project team assignments
Resource calendars
Risk register
What is padding?
What is the problem with padding?
A pad is extra time or cost added to an estimate because the estimator does not have enough information or feels insecure about their estimating
Padding undermines the ability to develop a realistic schedule and budget
What is analogous estimating?
Analogous estimating uses expert judgment and historical information to estimate
