Class 12 - PROJECT SCHEDULING

What is schedule management?

What is the purpose of a project schedule?

What are the project time management processes?

A process used to define project tasks and their duration.

To determine when tasks occur, how long they take, and how they relate to each other.

Define activities, sequence activities, estimate durations, develop schedule, control schedule.

What is PERT and what is it used for?

What is CPM?

A scheduling method developed by the U.S. Navy for R&D projects with uncertain activity times.

Critical Path Method; identifies minimum project duration and schedule flexibility.

What factors limit schedule creation?

What is the project manager responsible for in scheduling?

Scope, resources, risks, time constraints, organizational processes.

Ensuring activities are defined, sequenced, estimated, and scheduled realistically.

What does it mean to define activities?

What tool helps define activities?

Breaking down work packages into tasks that can be scheduled.

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).

What is a predecessor activity?

What is a successor activity?

An activity that logically comes before another.

An activity that logically follows another.

What is a mandatory dependency?

What is a discretionary dependency?

A professor cannot grade exams until students finish taking the test. What type of dependency is this? (example)

A required relationship due to physical or contractual constraints.

A preferred relationship based on expert judgment.

Mandatory finish-to-start dependency.

What is a lead in scheduling?

What is a lag in scheduling?

An acceleration of the successor activity.

A delay imposed before the successor activity can start.

What makes an activity duration estimate “good”?

What are the steps to create a project schedule?

Realistic assumptions, historical data, resource knowledge, expert input.

Define activities → Sequence activities → Estimate durations → Identify critical path → Develop schedule.

What is the critical path?

Why is the critical path important?

The longest path through the project determining minimum duration.

Delays on it delay the entire project.

What is the forward pass?

What is the backward pass?

Calculates early start (ES) and early finish (EF) times.

Calculates late start (LS) and late finish (LF) times

What is total float?

What is free float?

How do you identify the critical path using float?

Time an activity can be delayed without delaying the project completion date.

Time an activity can be delayed without delaying its successor.

Critical path activities have zero total float.