Introduction to Planning and Scheduling Review

Microsoft Project

100

This activity type is a rollup of tasks. It can be expanded and collapsed.

What is a Summary Task

200

This activity type is a marker that represents a significant accomplishment and has no duration, work, or cost assigned to it.

What is a Milestone?

300

These are the three dependency types we can use between Predecessors and Successors in Microsoft Project

What is Finish-to-Start (FS), Start-to-Start (SS), and Finish-to-Finish (FF)

Planning and Scheduling

100

This is often better to use to represent a wait time instead of a lag

What is a Schedule Visibility Task (SVT)?

200

This is "The Law of Dependencies"

The predecessor MUST _____ before the successor CAN _______

300

These are the three most important date fields an activity can have

Forecast,

Actuals,

Baseline

Misc

100

This is a the difference between a critical path and driving path

The critical path is the path that drives the very end of the project. A driving path is the path that drives any activity before the end of the project.

200

This represents labor, material, or capital that may be utilized to accomplish project work.

What is a Resource?

300

These are considered "Soft Constraints"

Start-No-Earlier Than (SNET), Finish-No-Earlier-Than (FNET)