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Assignment 5 1. What are the processes (discussed in class) involved in project time / schedule management. Planning schedule management: determining the policies, procedures, and documentation that will be used for planning, executing, and controlling the project schedule Defining activities: identifying the specific activities that the project team members and stakeholders must perform to produce the project deliverables. Sequencing activities: identifying and documenting the relationships between project activities Estimating activity resources: estimating how many resources a project team should use to perform project activities Estimating activity durations: estimating the number of work periods that are needed to complete individual activities Developing the schedule: analyzing activity sequences, activity resource estimates, and activity duration estimates to create the project schedule Controlling the schedule: controlling and managing changes to the project schedule 2. What is a task/activity? What is a milestone? Describe task/activity sequencing? An activity or a task is referred to a factor of work that is normally in the breakdown structure of the work which involves an expected cost, time duration and resource requirements. Milestone are zero duration activities, and will often be created as a result of key activities being completed at a particular point in time. They are also used to name and identifying key control points when monitoring and controlling during project execution. Such milestones may influence or impose the sequence of activities and are hence vital to be used here. Task/Activity sequencing is referred to a process of reviewing the tasks or activities and determining dependencies among them. 3. What is a project resource? What are some examples of project resources? What role / importance do resources play in project time/schedule management? A project resource is a term used for all the resources that are required for the completion of the tasks included in a project. The most significant examples of project resource include human labor, facilities, equipments and machines, and the funding required to finance the project. The importance of resources in schedule management is very significant because the effective allocation of the resource involved within a project make the project schedule effective and enables a project to be successful. 4. Discuss the difference between a task’s duration and an task’s effort? A task’s duration basically involves the timeline of a task including the actual time when a task was started and the time when it was actually completed. And A task’s effort basically refers to the actual number of hour or the actual time that is required to be spent focusing on the actual task to get the job done. 5. What is a Network diagram? What is a Gantt chart? Compare and contrast the two. A network diagram refers to the schematic display the logical relationships and the sequencing of the activities involved in a project. A Gantt Chart aims to provide a standard format for the display of the schedule information of a project by listing the project activities along with their start and completion dates in a timeline format. 6. What is the critical path? Describe how the critical path is determined? A critical path for a project is referred to the series of activities that could determine the earliest time by which a project could be completed. Firstly, a good network diagram needs to be developed. Further, the estimated duration should be added for all the activities on each path with the help of a network diagram. The longest path obtained is determined to be the critical path. 7. What is slack (float)? What is total slack? What is free slack? Slack is referred to an amount of time by which a task in the project could be delayed without the delay in the succeeding task or the completion date of the project. Total Slack is referred to the amount of time ac activity may be delayed from its early start time without delaying the completion date of the planned project. Free Slack is referred to the amount of time an activity could be delayed without a delay in the early start time of any activity being immediately followed. 9. In assignment 4 you created a WBS diagram and Gannt task list for a new Selfcheckout Point of Sale (cash register) system in TU’s University Store. That project required at least 4 summary tasks and 12 primary tasks. Using the MS Project file you created in assignment 4, put together the schedule for the Self -checkout project by adding the duration and sequencing for all tasks. Generate a .pdf for the Gantt chart view of your Self-checkout project. Generate a .pdf for the Network diagram for Selfcheckout project as well. Answer the following questions about your Self-checkout project: a. If you start the project on 9/1/2014, how many work days will the project take to complete? When will the project be complete? 10/3/2014 b. Identify each of the summary tasks (level 1 of your WBS - 1., 2., 3., etc. ) and the total duration of each summary task? design implementation c. What primary tasks are on the critical path? All of them. Assignment 4 1. What is scope? What processes are involved in project scope management? Project Scope management include the process required to ensure that the project include all the work required and only the work required, to complete the project successfully. Managing the project scope is primarily concerned with defining and controlling. Below are the list of process involved into Scope: 1. Plan Scope management. 2. Collect Requirement. 3. Define Scope. 4. Create WBS. 5. Validate Scope. 6. Control Scope 2. What is a project scope statement? What should a project scope statement include? The Project Scope statement is the description of the project scope, major deliverables, assumption and constraints. The project scope statement document the entire scope, including project and product scope, it describe in details, the project’s deliverables and the work required to create those deliverables, it also provides a common understanding of the project scope among project stakeholder. It may contain explicit scope exclusions that can assist in managing stakeholder expectations. Project Scope Statement includes below: 1. Product scope description. 2. Acceptance Criteria. 3. Deliverable. 4. Project exclusion. 5. Constraints. 6. Assumption. 3. What are project requirements? Discuss the common methods used for collecting project requirements. The PMBOK® Guide, Fifth Edition, describes requirements as “conditions or capabilities that must be met by the project or present in the product, service, or result to satisfy an agreement or other formally imposed specification” Common Methods used for collecting project requirements: -Interviewing -Focus groups and facilitated workshops -Using group creativity and decision-making techniques -Questionnaires and surveys -Observation -Prototyping -Benchmarking 4. What is scope creep? What are the goals of scope control? Why is controlling scope so important in project management? Scope Creep means the uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time, cost and resources. Goals of scope control: -Influence the factors that cause scope changes -Assure changes are processed according to procedures developed as part of integrated change control -Manage changes when they occur Controlling scope so important in Project management: A project will surely have tales of how scope changes have had a negative overall effect. Scope change is bound to happen and is expected in most cases, but the goal is to keep your scope as focused as possible in hopes of creating as straight of a line to you and your client's goal as possible. These components are project initiation, scope planning, scope definition, scope verification, and scope change control. 5. What is a WBS? What is a WBS diagram? What is a responsibility matrix? WBS is a deliverable-oriented grouping of the work involved in a project that defines the total scope of the project and WBS is a foundation document that provides the basis for planning and managing project schedules, costs, resources, and changes WBS diagram: A WBS diagram, the project scope is graphically expressed. Usually the diagram starts with a graphic object or a box at the top, which represents the entire project. Then, there are subcomponents under the box. These boxes represent the deliverables of the project. Under each deliverable, there are sub-elements listed. These sub-elements are the activities that should be performed in order to achieve the deliverables. Although most of the WBS diagrams are designed based on the deliveries, some WBS are created based on the project phases. Usually, information technology projects are perfectly fit into WBS model. Therefore, almost all information technology projects make use of WBS. In addition to the general use of WBS, there is specific objective for deriving a WBS as well. WBS is the input for Gantt charts, a tool that is used for project management purpose. Gantt chart is used for tracking the progression of the tasks derived by WBS. Responsibility matrix: The Responsibility Matrix (RM), also known as the Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM), is used to show the connections between work that needs to be done and project team members. 6 -You are put in charge of introducing a new self-checkout Point of Sale (cash register) system in TU’s University Store. Identify all of the deliverables and work required to complete the project (must have at least 12 primary tasks and 4 summary tasks). Use your choice of software to create a WBS diagram(with at least 2 levels). Use MS project to create a corresponding Gantt chart task list-do not include durations or dependencies (predecessors/successors).Use Word (table) to create a corresponding responsibility matrix for the project (make up team member names). Place (copy and paste) the WBS diagram, Gantt chart task list and responsibility matrix below:
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