Proj Mgmt Info Tech Chapter 6

Front 1

What are the first four steps in planning a project schedule?

Back 1

1) Define activities 2) Sequence activities 3) Estimate activity resources 4) Estimate activity durations

Front 2

What are some of the elements of Activity Attributes

Back 2

Dependencies, Predecessors, Duration, Effort, Logical Relationships, Leads and Lags, Resource Requirements

Front 3

What is a mandatory, discretionary and external dependency

Back 3

Mandatory is something that has to be done first, discretionary is when it is a preference of management, external is when you have to depend on processes outside the project.

Front 4

What is a resource breakdown structure?

Back 4

A hierarchiacal structure that identifies the project's resources by category and type.

Front 5

What symbol on a Gantt chart represents a slipped milestone?

Back 5

A white diamone

Front 6

What is critical chain scheduling?

Back 6

A method of scheduling that considers limited resources when creating a project schedule and includes buffers to protect the project completion

Front 7

What is an activity

Back 7

An element of work on the WBS that has an expected duration and cost and expected resource requirements

Front 8

What is Activity on Arrow?

Back 8

a network diagramming method in which activities are represented by arrows and connected at points called nodes to illustrate the sequence of activities

Front 9

What are baseline dates

Back 9

the planned schedule dates for activities in a Tracking Gantt chart

Front 10

What is Fast Tracking

Back 10

a schedule compression technique in which you do activities in parallel that you would normally do in sequence

Front 11

What is Parkinson's Law

Back 11

That work will expand to fill the time that has been allotted

Front 12

What is the Theory of Constraints

Back 12

a management philosophy that states that any complex system at any point in time often has only one aspect or constraint that is limiting its ability to achieve more of its goal.