Sequencing and Estimating
Finish-to-Start, Finish-to-Finish, Start-to-Start, and Start-to-Finish are all examples of
What are Project Dependencies
Unanimity, Majority, Plurality, and Dictatorship are examples of
What are Group Decision Making Techniques
The diagram used to break down the work of a project in to small manageable tasks
What is a Work Breakdown Structure
The name of the diagram used when finding critical path.
What is a Precedence Diagram
Explicitly stating what is out of scope for the project
What are Project Exclusions
A dependency that isn't required but rather highly suggested
What is a Discretionary Dependency
What are Brainstorming Techniques
The document used in support of the WBS that provides detailed descriptions of the components
What is a WBS Dictonary
The amount of time you can take before starting or finishing a task not on the critical path.
What is float
The outputs that comprise the product or service of the project
What are Project Deliverables
The estimating technique where each task is given a optimistic estimate, a realistic estimate, and a pessimistic estimate
What is Three Point Estimating
Interviews, Focus Groups, and Facilitated Workshops are all ways to identify
What are Stakeholder Requirements
The approved version of a scope statement, work breakdown structure, and its associated WBS dictionary
What is a Scope Baseline
A list of the components of a project that are critical to finishing the project on time.
What is Critical Path
Defines the process and criteria for accepting completed products, services, or results
What is Project Acceptance Criteria
the process where activities are sequenced using logical relationships
What is Sequencing Activites
This brainstorming technique allows large numbers of ideas to be sorted into groups for review and analysis.
What is Affinity Diagramming
Is the subdivision of project deliverables into small, more manageable components until the work and deliverables are defined to the work package level
What is Decomposition
True or False? Crashing projects not on the critical path will change the project end date.
What is False
Describes the project’s deliverables and the work required to create those deliverables
What is a Project Scope Statement
an analysis of existing resources to provide transparency into reserve balances and allow you to better frame how you can enable the use for investment in highest priorities.
What is Reserve Analysis
This decision making technique states that the largest block in a group decides even if a majority is not achieved
What is Plurality
A small decomposed component of work in a project
What is a Work Package
The schedule compression technique that involves inputting more resources to finish the task quicker
What is Schedule Crashing
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