06- Schedule Management

Which project scheduling method approach will often be used to deliver incremental value to the customer or when multiple teams can concurrently develop a large number of features that have few interconnected dependencies?

Iterative scheduling with a backlog

On-demand scheduling

Critical path

Critical chain

James, a project manager, asks his mentor William, a member of the PMO, for advice. James is controlling the project schedule and has been informed by the sponsor that senior management wants the project that James is managing to be completed two months earlier. There is also a need for additional funding because both more resources and overtime have been approved. Which data analysis tool and technique should William provide James to use in this situation?

Crashing

Resource leveling

Fast tracking

Resource smoothing

The Define Activities process uses decomposition as a technique to produce a final output that will be updated periodically as the project progresses. What is this output?

Activity list

Deliverables

Activity definitions

Activity attributes

Robert is in the Sequence Activities process and Albert, a business analyst asks Robert which is the most rarely used type of dependency when performing the precedence diagramming method (PDM)?

Start-to-Finish (SF)

Start-to-start (SS)

Finish-to-start (FS)

Finish-to-finish (FF)

The process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule describes which project management process?

Plan Schedule Management

Develop Schedule

Direct and Manage Project Work

Control Schedule

James is an experienced project manager who has been assigned to train 10 new project managers, including Willis, a new project manager. James has asked Willis what the key benefit of the Control Schedule process is. How should Willis answer?

That the schedule baseline is maintained throughout the project.

To provide guidance and direction on how the project schedule will be managed throughout the project, and to provide guidance on how to monitor and control the project schedule.

To identify schedule constraints to create the project schedule for project execution, monitoring, and controlling.

To generate a schedule with planned dates for completing the project activities.

The schedule management plan can establish all of the following except?

Schedule monitoring and reporting tools

Release and iteration length

Level of accuracy

Control thresholds

The project schedule must be compressed due to variances identified in the Control Schedule process. Gail has determined based on the existing circumstances that it would be best to employ the fast tracking technique. Which dependency attribute must be considered if Gail is performing fast tracking?

Discretionary dependencies

Mandatory dependencies

External dependencies

Internal dependencies

A form of progressive elaboration applicable to work packages, planning packages, and release planning when using an agile or waterfall approach is known as?

Rolling wave planning

Decomposition

Dependency determination and integration

Decision making

Which Control Schedule process data analysis tool and technique will assess the various scenarios guided by the output from the Project Risk Management processes to bring the schedule model into alignment with the project management plan and approved baselines?

What-if scenario analysis

Earned value analysis

Trend analysis

Variance analysis

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