Term
| What is the purpose of the 5th process in Project Schedule Management? |
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Definition
| To analyze activity sequences, durations, resources, and schedule constraints to create a schedule model |
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Term
| What are the inputs for the 5th process in Project Schedule Management? |
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Definition
1. PMP
2. Project Documents
3. Agreements
4. EEFs
5. OPAs |
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Term
| What are the tools and techniques for the 5th process in Project Schedule Management? |
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Definition
1. Schedule Network Analysis (Overarching tool/technique)
2. Critical Path Method
3. Resource Optimization
4. Data Analysis
5. Leads and Lags
6. Schedule Compression
7. PMIS
8. Agile Release Planning |
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Term
| Explain Resource Optimization and the two types |
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Definition
Balancing start/stop of scheduled activities with resource availability
1. Resource Leveling - shifting schedule to meet resource work hours
2. Resource Smoothing - Balancing out resource utilization |
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| Explain schedule compression and the two types |
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Definition
Used to shorten or accelerate schedule duration w/o reducing project scope.
1. Crashing -Adding additional resources
2. Fast-tracking -doing multiple activities in parallel |
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Term
| What is agile release planning? |
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Definition
| It is a high level summary timeline of the release schedule for each iteration of the product. |
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Term
| What are the outputs for the 5th process in Project Schedule Management? |
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Definition
1. Schedule Baseline
2. Project Schedule
3. Schedule Data
4. Project Calendars
5. Change Requests
6. PMP Updates
7. Project Documents Updates |
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Term
| What is the schedule baseline? |
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Definition
| It is the approved version of a schedule model |
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Term
| What is the difference between the project schedule and the project calendar? |
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Definition
Project schedule - Presents linked activities with planned dates
Project Calendar - Presents work periods/shifts available for scheduled activities. |
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Term
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Definition
| Collection of info to describe and control schedule |
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