Chapter 3 Flashcards
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must be completed on time, within
budget, meet requirements, and satisfy users
Successful Project
Cost, scope, time ◦ Usually one of these is fixed A budget cast in stone An inflexible scope A schedule fixed by factors beyond the firm’s contro
Project Triangle
Identify all project tasks and
estimate the completion time
and cost of each
Project Planning
Create a specific timetable that
shows tasks, task dependencies,
and critical tasks that might
delay the project
Project Scheduling
Guiding, supervising, and
coordinating the project
team’s workload
Project Monitoring
Create regular progress
reports to management,
users, and the project team
itself
Project reporting
Shows planned and actual progress on a project
Gantt chart
◦ Time usually displayed on horizontal axis
◦ Tasks shown on vertical axis
Gantt Chart
must clearly identify each task and include an
estimated duration
Work breakdown Structure
is any work that has a beginning and an end and requires the use of company resources such as people, time, or money
task or activity
are basic units of work that the project manager
plans, schedules, and monitors — so they should be
relatively small and manageable
Tasks
Must identify all project tasks, from initial fact-
finding to system implementation
How much time will be needed to perform each
task?
Project Size
Assemble and guide a development team that has
the skill and experience to handle the project
Turnover, job vacancies, and escalating salaries in
the technology sector
Human Resources
are conditions, restrictions, or
requirement that the system must satisfy
Constraints
◦ Tasks depend on each other and must be performed in a sequence
Task Pattern
◦ Involve dependent tasks, multiple successor tasks, and multiple predecessor tasks
Task Pattern
Should be brief and descriptive
Task Name
Can be a number or code that
provides unique identification
Task ID
Amount of time it will take to complete a task
Task Duration
represents the work that one person can complete in one day
Person-day
When tasks must be completed one after another
Dependent Tasks
When several tasks can start at the same time
Each is called a concurrent task
Often, two or more concurrent tasks depend on a single prior task, which is called a predecessor task
Multiple Successor Tasks
When a task requires two or more prior tasks to be completed before it can start
Multiple Predecessor
Tasks
A series of tasks which, if delayed, would affect the completion date of the overall project
Critical Path
