Define Activities
A technique used for dividing and subdividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller, more manageable parts.
What is Decomposition?
A technique used for constructing a schedule model in which activities are represented by nodes and are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are to be performed.
What is the Precedence Diagramming Method? (PDM)
A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project using historical data from a similar activity or project.
What is Analogous Estimating?
A technique used to identify early and late start dates, as well as early and late finish dates, for the uncompleted portions of project activities.
What is Schedule Network Analysis?
The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project, which determines the shortest possible duration.
What is the Critical Path Method?
A list of significant points or events in a project, program, or portfolio.
What is a Milestone List?
A relationship that is contractually required or inherent in the nature of the work.
What is Mandatory Dependency?
An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
What is Parametric Estimating?
A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources. Examples are: approving overtime, bringing in additional resources, or paying to expedite deliveries on the critical path.
What is Crashing?
A technique in which activity start and finish dates are adjusted to balance demand for resources with the available supply.
What is Resource Optimization Technique?
Is an iterative planning technique in which the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail, while work further in the future is planned at a higher level.
What is Rolling Wave Planning?
A graphical representation of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities.
What is Project Schedule Network Diagram?
A technique used to estimate cost or duration by applying an average or weighted average of optimistic, pessimistic, and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates.
What is Three-point Estimating?
Supporting documentation outlining the details used in establishing project estimates such as assumptions, constraints, level of detail, ranges, and confidence levels.
What is Basis of Estimates?
A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
What is Schedule Compression?
The approved version of a schedule model that can be changed using formal change control procedures and is used as the basis for comparison to actual results.
What is Schedule Baseline?
A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished. For example, installing the operating system on a PC (successor) cannot start until the PC hardware is assembled (predecessor).
What is Finish-to-Start (FS)?
Quantitative assessments of the likely number of time periods that are required to complete an activity, a phase, or a project.
What is Duration Estimates?
An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates, durations, milestones, and resources.
What is Project Schedule?
Estimates or predictions of conditions and events in the project's future based on information and knowledge available at the time the schedule is calculated.
What is Schedule Forecasts?
The approved version of the time-phased project budget, excluding any management reserves, which can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison to actual results.
What is Cost Baseline?
A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has finished. For example, writing a document (predecessor) is required to finish before editing the document (successor) can finish.
What is Finish-to finish (FF)?
Multiple attributes associated with each schedule activity that can be included within the activity list. These include activity codes, predecessor activities, successor activities, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, imposed dates, constraints, and assumptions.
What are Activity Attributes?
The collection of information for describing and controlling the schedule.
What is Schedule Data?
A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
What is Variance Analysis?