Lecture 10 - Software Project Scheduling

Question 1

What answers the Why question in Software Project Planning?

Answer 1

Business Case / Scope

Question 2

What answers the What question in Software Project Planning?

Answer 2

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Question 3

What answers the When question in Software Project Planning?

Answer 3

Schedule

Question 4

What answers the Who question in Software Project Planning?

Answer 4

Staffing

Question 5

What answers the Where question in Software Project Planning?

Answer 5

Facilities

Question 6

What answers the How much question in Software Project Planning?

Answer 6

Budget / Costs

Question 7

In Software Project Planning, what takes place in Introduction?

Answer 7

Defining objectives of project, setting constraints

Question 8

In Software Project Planning, what is Project Organization?

Answer 8

The way the development team is organized (roles, etc.)

Question 9

In Software Project Planning, what is Estimation?

Answer 9

The effort, cost, schedule estimates, resource availability for the project

Question 10

In Software Project Planning, what is Risk Management?

Answer 10

Possible project risks, their likelihood of occurring, and risk reduction strategies

Question 11

In Software Project Planning, what are Hardware / Software? (3)

Answer 11

• Support required for development
• Price estimates if hardware needs to be bought
• Delivery schedule

Question 12

In Software Project Planning, what is Work Breakdown?

Answer 12

• Breakdown of project into activities / tasks
• Identification of milestones / deliverables associated with each task

Question 13

In Software Project Planning, what is Project Schedule?

Answer 13

• The estimated time to reach each milestone
• Allocation of resources to activities

Question 14

In Software Project Planning, what is Monitoring, Controlling, and Reporting?

Answer 14

Management reports for monitoring the progression of the project

Question 15

In Project Time Management Processes, what is Planning schedule management?

Answer 15

Determining policies, procedures, documentation that will be used for planning, executing, and controlling the project schedule

Question 16

In Project Time Management Processes, what is Defining activities?

Answer 16

Identifying specific activities that project team members and stakeholders must perform to produce project deliverables

Question 17

In Project Time Management Processes, what is Sequencing activities?

Answer 17

Identifying and documenting relationships between project activities

Question 18

In Project Time Management Processes, what is Estimating activity resources?

Answer 18

Estimating how many resources a project team should use to perform project activities

Question 19

In Project Time Management Processes, what is Estimating activity durations?

Answer 19

Estimating number of work periods needed to complete individual activities

Question 20

In Project Time Management Processes, what is Developing the schedule?

Answer 20

Analyzing activity sequences, activity resource estimates, activity duration estimates to create project schedule

Question 21

In Project Time Management Processes, what is Controlling the schedule?

Answer 21

Controlling and managing changes to project schedule

Question 22

A process showing relationship of activities and determining of the project time and the timing of activities comprising the project describes…

Answer 22

Scheduling

Question 23

“What are the critical bottlenecks in the project” is a question considered in…

Answer 23

Scheduling

Question 24

“What are the activities of the project” is a question considered in…

Answer 24

Scheduling

Question 25

"How long the project is expected to take" is a question considered in...

Answer 25

Scheduling

Question 26

"When each activity may be scheduled (started and ended)" is a question considered in...

Answer 26

Scheduling

Question 27

"How resources can be used more proper" is a question considered in...

Answer 27

Scheduling

Question 28

What are the main reasons for conflict on projects?

Answer 28

Schedule issues

Question 29

TF: Conflicts arising from schedule issues is more prevalent in the first half of the project

Answer 29

False. Second half of the project

Question 30

What needs to take place during Breakdown in Scheduling Principles?

Answer 30

Product and process must be decomposed into a manageable number of activities and tasks

Question 31

What needs to take place during Interdependency in Scheduling Principles?

Answer 31

Tasks that can be completed in parallel must be separated from those that must be completed serially

Question 32

What needs to take place during Time Allocation in Scheduling Principles?

Answer 32

Every task has a start and completion date that takes interdependence into account

Question 33

What needs to take place during Effort Validation in Scheduling Principles?

Answer 33

Project manager must ensure that on any given day there are enough staff members assigned to complete the tasks on time

Question 34

What needs to take place during Defined Responsibility in Scheduling Principles?

Answer 34

Every scheduled task needs to be assigned to a specific team member

Question 35

What needs to take place during Defined outcomes in Scheduling Principles?

Answer 35

Every task in the schedule needs to have a defined outcome (work product or deliverable)

Question 36

What needs to take place during Defined milestones in Scheduling Principles?

Answer 36

A milestone is accomplished when one or more work products from an engineering task have passed quality review

Question 37

"obtaining customer sign-off on key documents or completion of specific products" is an example of a...

Answer 37

milestone

Question 38

What are considered resources? (3)

Answer 38

- People - Equipment - Materials

Question 39

What needs to be known before estimating activity durations?

Answer 39

Must have good idea of the quantity and type of resources that will be assigned to each activity

Question 40

What is a Resource Breakdown Structure?

Answer 40

Hierarchical structure that identifies the project's resources by category and type

Question 41

TF: In Activity Duration Estimation, Duration only includes the actual amount of time worked on an activity

Answer 41

False. actual amount of time worked on an activity plus elapsed time

Question 42

In Activity Duration Estimation, what is effort?

Answer 42

Number of workdays or work hours required to complete a task

Question 43

TF: In Activity Duration Estimation, effort equals duration

Answer 43

False. It does not

Question 44

TF: In Activity Duration Estimation, only people doing the work should help create estimates

Answer 44

False. Experts should then review them

Question 45

What is an activity / task

Answer 45

Element of work normally found in WBS that has expected duration, cost, and resource requirement

Question 46

What is an activity list?

Answer 46

Tabulation of activities to be included in project schedule

Question 47

What is included in an activity list? (3)

Answer 47

- Activity name - Activity ID - Brief description of activity

Question 48

What are activity attributes?

Answer 48

Provide more information such as predecessors, successors, logical relationships, leads and lags, etc. related to the activity

Question 49

What is Finish to Start (FS) in Task Dependency? Say you have Tasks A and B

Answer 49

Task B can only start once predecessor task A is completed

Question 50

What is Finish to Finish (FF) in Task Dependency? Say you have Tasks A and B

Answer 50

When Task A finishes, Task B may finish

Question 51

What is Start to Start (SS) in Task Dependency? Say you have Tasks A and B

Answer 51

When Task A starts, Task B may Start

Question 52

What is Start to Finish (SF) in Task Dependency? Say you have Tasks A and B

Answer 52

When Task A starts, Task B may finish

Question 53

In an Activity graph, each activity has... (4)

Answer 53

- Predecessor - Duration - Due Date - End point (milestone or deliverable)

Question 54

In an activity graph, each task has... (3)

Answer 54

- Start time - End time - Duration

Question 55

What is an Activity-on-node network?

Answer 55

A directed mathematical graph, comprised of nodes that represent activities

Question 56

What is included in a node in an Activity-on-node network?

Answer 56

Information about an activity, such as earliest and latest times

Question 57

What do edges represent in an Activity-on-node network?

Answer 57

Transitions from one activity to another

Question 58

In an Activity-on-node network, what is Earliest Start Time (ES)?

Answer 58

The earliest time an activity can begin, based on the completion of its predecessor activities

Question 59

In an Activity-on-node network, what is Earliest Finish Time (EF)?

Answer 59

The earliest time an activity can be completed, calculated by adding the activity’s duration to its Early Start (ES)

Question 60

In an Activity-on-node network, what is Latest Finish Time (LF)?

Answer 60

The latest time at which the activity can be completed without delaying the project

Question 61

In an Activity-on-node network, what is Latest Start Time (LS)?

Answer 61

Equals to the latest finish time minus the time required to complete the activity.

Question 62

What does a node look like in an Activity-on-node network?

Answer 62

ES | A | EF SL LS | DR | LF - SL = Slack/Float - A = Activity identifier - DR = Duration | ES | A | EF |

Question 63

What does a schedule/activity network impose?

Answer 63

Imposes an "is preceded by" relation on a collection of tasks

Question 63

TF: A Schedule/Activity network is an aggregation relation

Answer 63

False. A time-ordering relation

Question 64

TF: A WBS is an aggregation relation

Answer 64

True

Question 65

TF: An schedule/activity network contains hierarchical (aggregation) information

Answer 65

False. It does not

Question 66

TF: A WBS contains no sequencing (scheduling) information

Answer 66

True