Project Management (Week 5)

What activities are found in project schedule planning? (Choose 3)

• Activity Definition

• Activity Sequencing

• Activity Duration

• Activity Costs

• Activity Diagram

Foundation of developing a project schedule is to...

• identify the planned activities to be completed

• identify the total time taken for the whole project to be completed

• identify the team members for each activity

What do we use to define those activities?

• Work Breakin Structure

• Work Breakup Structure

• Work Breakdown Structure

• Work Breakout Structure

Activity sequencing is the process of identifying the dependency relationship between activities

• True

• False

It is taught that activities are not carried out at the same time, but can they be run in parallel and why?

What are the different techniques used to estimate duration of tasks? (Choose 2)

• Top down estimation

• Expert Judgment

• End-to-end estimate

• Tasks-oriented one by one calculation

What happens in a top down estimation? (Choose 2)

• High level estimation without much details

• References to similar projects or expertise

• Define detailed tasks to add up all the budget

• Bosses provide budget, project managers use it for estimation

There is another technique used, bottom-up estimation. What is the difference between (1) top-down estimation and (2) bottom-up estimation? (Choose 2)

• (1) Cheap and fast

  (2) Slow and expensive

• (1) Little details

  (2) Lots of details

• (1) For small projects

  (2) For large projects

• (1) No experience in existing projects

  (2) have prior references to existing projects

Describe what is a critical path? (Choose 2)

• Sequence of tasks that takes the longest time to project completion

• Sequence of tasks that do not have slack time

• Sequence of tasks that takes the shortest time to project completion

• Sequence of tasks that have slack time

In your best knowledge, what should a project manager do if the critical path takes longer than planned?

• Call for help from higher management

• If there is additional budget, pump in more resources

• Ignore and run the project as planned and hope the subsequent tasks will cover up

• Break-up tasks further to deliver part of the requirements first

• Change the critical path so that it still delivers as planned