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involves the processes required to ensure timely completion of a project. Processes include:
– Activity definition
– Activity sequencing
– Activity duration estimating
– Schedule development
– Schedule control |
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| inherent in the nature of the work; hard logic |
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| Discretionary dependencies |
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| defined by the project team; soft logic |
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| involve relationships between project and non-project activities. |
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| includes the actual amount of time worked on an activity plus elapsed time |
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| uses results of the other time management processes to determine the start and end date of the project and its activities. |
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| Schedule Development Tools & Techniques |
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| include Gantt charts, PERT analysis, critical path analysis, and critical chain scheduling. |
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| Critical Path Method (CPM) |
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| a project network analysis technique used to predict total project duration and is the longest path through the network diagram and has the least amount of slack or float. |
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– The critical path is not the one with all the critical activities; it only accounts for time
– There can be more than one critical path if the lengths of two or more paths are the same
– The critical path can change as the project progresses |
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The amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the early
start of any immediately following activities. |
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| Total slack or total float |
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Is the amount of time an activity may be delayed from its early start
without delaying the planned project finish date. |
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| Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) |
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| a network analysis technique used to estimate project duration when there is a high degree of uncertainty about the individual activity duration estimates. |
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| PERT weighted average formula |
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Best Case + 4X most likely + Worst Case
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| Critical Chain Scheduling |
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Critical chain scheduling is a method of scheduling that takes limited resources into account when creating a
project schedule and includes buffers to protect the project completion date and assumes resources do not multitask because it often delays task completions and increases total durations. |
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| Is additional time to complete a task |
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| States that if something can go wrong, it will. |
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| Parkinson's Law (Student Syndrome) |
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| States that work expands to fill the time allowed. |
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| Additional time added before the project’s due date. |
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| Additional time added on the noncritical path, where the noncritical meets the critical path. |
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Obtaining the greatest amount of schedule compression for the least
incremental cost. |
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| Doing tasks in parallel or overlapping them. |
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