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What are the first four steps in planning a project schedule?
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1) Define activities 2) Sequence activities 3) Estimate activity resources 4) Estimate activity durations
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What are some of the elements of Activity Attributes
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Dependencies, Predecessors, Duration, Effort, Logical Relationships, Leads and Lags, Resource Requirements
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What is a mandatory, discretionary and external dependency
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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.
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What is a resource breakdown structure?
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A hierarchiacal structure that identifies the project's resources by category and type.
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What symbol on a Gantt chart represents a slipped milestone?
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A white diamone
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What is critical chain scheduling?
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A method of scheduling that considers limited resources when creating a project schedule and includes buffers to protect the project completion
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What is an activity
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An element of work on the WBS that has an expected duration and cost and expected resource requirements
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What is Activity on Arrow?
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a network diagramming method in which activities are represented by arrows and connected at points called nodes to illustrate the sequence of activities
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What are baseline dates
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the planned schedule dates for activities in a Tracking Gantt chart
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What is Fast Tracking
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a schedule compression technique in which you do activities in parallel that you would normally do in sequence
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What is Parkinson's Law
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That work will expand to fill the time that has been allotted
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What is the Theory of Constraints
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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.
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