Schedule Flashcards
(51 cards)
What should be considered for tailoring for project schedule management?
Considerations for tailoring include but are not limited to: life cycle approach, resource availability, project dimensions and technology support.
What is the plan schedule management process?
Plan schedule management is the process of establishing the policies, procedures and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule.
What is the define activities process?
Define activities is the process of identifying and documenting the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables. This process is performed throughout the project.
What is the control schedule process?
Control schedule is the process of monitoring the status of the project to update the project schedule and managing changes to the schedule baseline. The key benefit of this process is that the schedule baseline is maintained throughout the project. This process is performed throughout the project.
What is the purpose of the project schedule?
The main purpose of the project schedule is to provide a detailed plan for how and when the project will deliver the results defined in the project scope. The project schedule is also an important tool for communicating and managing stakeholder expectations, team or individual assignments and as a basis for performance reporting.
What’s the inputs to the plan schedule management process?
Project charter
Project management plan (scope management plan, development approach)
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets
What are the tools and techniques used in the plan schedule management process?
Expert judgment
Data analysis (alternative analysis)
Meetings
What does the schedule management plan establish?
The schedule management plan is a component of the project management plan that establishes the criteria and the activities for developing, monitoring and controlling the schedule. The schedule management plan may be formal or informal, highly detailed or broadly framed based on the needs of the projects.
Who should be included in a project schedule development meeting?
Project teams may hold planning meetings to develop the schedule management plan. Participants of these meetings may include the project manager, the project sponsor, selected project team members, selected stakeholders, anyone with responsibility for schedule planning or execution, and others as needed.
What can the schedule management plan establish?
Project schedule model development
Release an iteration length
Level of accuracy
Units of measure
Organizational procedures links
Project schedule model maintenance
Control thresholds
Rules of performance measurement
Reporting formats
What the inputs to the define activities process?
Project management plan (schedule management plan, scope baseline)
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets
What are the outputs to the define activities process?
Activity list
Activity attributes
Milestone list
Change requests
Project management plan updates (schedule baseline, cost baseline)
In the define activities process, what does decomposition accomplish?
The define activities process defines the final outputs as activities rather than deliverables, as done in the create work breakdown structure process.
What is the iterative process of increasing the level of detail in a project management plan as greater amounts of information and more accurate estimate become available called?
Progressive elaboration
What are the inputs to the define activities process?
Project management plan (schedule management plan, scope baseline)
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets
What is the purpose of the define activities process?
The purpose of the define activities, processes to identify and document specific actions you need to take to produce project deliverables.
What is rolling wave planning?
Rolling wave planning is an iterative planning technique in which the near term work to be done is planned in detail, while future work is planned at a higher level.
What is progressive elaboration?
Progressive elaboration is the iterative process of increasing the level of detail in a planner as more information becomes available.
What is decomposition?
Decomposition is a technique used for dividing the project scope and deliverables into smaller, more manageable parts.
What are the tools and techniques used in define activities process?
Meetings
Expert judgment
Decomposition
Rolling wave planning
What are the inputs to the sequence activities process?
Project management plan (schedule management plan, scope baseline)
Activity attributes
Activity list
Assumptions log
Milestone list
Enterprise environmental factors
Organizational process assets
What is the precedence diagramming method? (PDM)
The precedence diagramming method is a technique used for constructing a schedule model in which activities are represented by nodes and are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are to be performed.
What are mandatory dependencies?
Mandatory dependencies are those that are legally or contractually required or inherent in the nature of the work. Mandatory dependencies often involve physical limitations and are sometimes referred to as hard logic or hard dependencies. The project team determines which dependencies are mandatory during the process. Mandatory dependencies should not be confused with assigning schedule constraints in the scheduling tool.
What are leads and lags in the sequence activities process?
Leads and legs are refinements applied during network analysis to develop a viable schedule by adjusting the start time of the successor activities. Leads are used to advance a successor activity with respect to the predecessor activity and lags are used where processors require a set period of time to elapse between the predecessors and the successes without work or resource impact.
