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project schedules
time/resource management
planning schedule management
determining the policies, procedures, and documentation that will be used for planning, executing, and controlling the project schedule
defining activities
identifying the specific activities that the project team members and stakeholders must perform to produce the project deliverables
sequencing activities
identifying and documenting the relationships between project activities
estimating activity resources
estimating how many resources a project team should use to perform project activities
estimating activity durations
estimating the number of work periods that are needed to complete individual activities
developing the schedule
analyzing activity sequences, activity resource estimates, and activity duration estimates to create the project schedule
controlling the schedule
controlling and managing changes to the project schedule
schedule management plan
the following things are included in a _________ __________ _____: project schedule model development, the scheduling methodology, level of accuracy and units of measure, control thresholds, rules of performance measurement, reporting formats, process descriptions
activity
(aka task) - an element of work normally found on the work breakdown structure (WBS) that has an expected duration, a cost, and resource
activity list
a tabulation of activities to be included on a project schedule that includes: the activity name, the activity identifier or number, a brief description of the activity
activity attributes
provide more information such as predecessors, successors, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, constraints, imposed dates, and assumptions related to the activity
milestone
a significant event that normally has no duration; often takes several activities and a lot of work to complete; tools for setting schedule goals and monitoring progress
dependency
a.k.a. relationship - the sequencing of project activities or tasks
discretionary dependencies
defined by the project team; sometimes referred to as soft logic and should be used with care since they may limit later scheduling options
mandatory dependencies
inherent in the nature of the work being performed on a project, sometimes referred to as hard logic
external dependencies
involve relationships between project and non-project activities
network diagram
a schematic display of the logical relationships among, or sequencing of, project activities
arrow diagramming method
also called activity-on-arrow; a network diagram in which activities are represented by arrows and the nodes or circles are the starting and ending points the activities; can only show finish-to-start dependencies
precedence diagramming method
activities are represented by boxes, arrows show relationships between activities, more popular than ADM, better at showing dependencies
finish to start
task B cannot start until task A finishes
start to start
task b cannot start until task A starts
finish to finish
task b cannot finish until task a finishes
start to finish
task b cannot finish until task a starts
resources
people, equipment, and materials
durations
quantity and type of resources for each activity should be determined before estimating activity ______
resource breakdown structure
a hierarchical structure that identifies the project's resources by category and type
duration
the actual amount of time worked on an activity plus elapsed time
effort
the number of workdays or work hours required to complete a task; normally doesn't equal duration
three point estimate
an estimate that includes optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic estimates, such as three weeks for the optimistic, four weeks for the most likely, and five weeks for the pessimistic estimate
gantt chart
provides a standard format for displaying project schedule information by listing project activities and their corresponding start and finish dates in a calendar format
black diamond
in gantt chart - a milestone
thick black bar
in gantt chart - summary tasks
lighter horizontal bars
in gantt chart - duration of tasks
arrows
dependencies between tasks
network diagrams
the two types of _______ _________ are arrow diagramming method and precedence diagramming method
specific, measurable, assignable, realistic, time-framed
acronym SMART for criteria of milestones
project milestones
the five key points of using ________ _______: define them early in the project and include them in the gantt chart to provide a visual guide, keep them small and frequent, the set of them must be all-encompassing, each of them must be binary (complete or incomplete), carefully monitor the critical path
critical path method
network diagramming technuqie used to predict toal project duration
critical path
the series of activities that determines the earliest time by which the project can be completed; is the longest path through the network diagram and has the least amount of slack; not the one with all the critical activities, it only accounts for time; can be more than one of the lengths are the same
slack
a.k.a. float - is the amount of time an activity may be delayed without delaying a succeeding activity or the project finish date
free slack
the amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the early start of any immediate following activities
total slack
the amount of time an activity may be delayed from its early start without delaying the planned project finish date
forward pass
____ _____ through the network diagram determines the early start and finish dates
backward pass
____ ____ determines the late start and finish dates
crashing
_____ activities by obtaining the greatest amount of schedule compression for the least incremental cost
fast tracking
_______ ______ activities by doing them in parallel or overlapping them
critical chain scheduling
a method of scheduling that considers limited resources when creating a project schedule and inlcudes buffers to protect the project completion date
theory of constraints
a management philosophy developed by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and introduced in his book "The Goal", attempts to minimize multitasking - when a resource works on more than one task at a time
multitasking
when a resource works on more than one task at a time
buffer
additional time to complete a task
murphy's law
states that if something can go wrong, it will
parkinson's law
states that work expands to fill the time allowed, in traditional estimates people often add a buffer to each task and use it if its needed or not
project buffer
created by critical chain scheduling; additional time added before the project's due date
feeding buffer
created by critical chain scheduling; additional time added before tasks on the critical path
program evaluation and review technique
PERT - a network analysis technique used to estimate project duration when there is a high degree of uncertainty about the individual activity duration estimates; uses probabilistic time estimates
probabilistic time estimates
duration estimates based on using optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic estimates of activity durations, or a three-point estimate
pert weighted averate
(optimistic time + 4 x most likely time + pessimistic time)/6
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