08 Oct Project managers often confront the challenge of reducing excessive time commitments and overloads among project resources.

Project managers often confront the challenge of reducing excessive time commitments and overloads among project resources. All of the following methods can be used to reduce work overloads EXCEPT:

 

 a. Reassign certain activities to other workers. 

 

b. Require all project resources to work overtime            

 

c. Split an activity into two activities and delay the second part. 

 

d. Reorder activities when logically feasible.

 

Which of these is NOT an issue to be considered when selecting team members?

 

 a. co-located teams      

 

b. virtual teams

 

c. cross functional teams             

 

d. stages of team development               

 

ID            Activity Early Start            Late Start             Duration              Programmers Required

 

A             Define Requirements    0              0              4              2

 

B             Design Application           4              4              2              4

 

C             Draft User Manual           4              10           2              3

 

D             Prepare Code    6              6              4              6

 

E              Test Code            10           10           2              4

 

F              Correct Defects                12           12           3              2

 

Figure 8-3 Programmers Resource Histogram

 

Consider the programmers resource histogram presented in Figure 8-3. How many programmers are required during the fifth week of this project?

 

a. 7 programmers           

 

b. 6 programmers           

 

c. 2 programmers            

 

d. 4 programmers

 

 Consider the software programmer loading chart presented in Figure 8-2. What percent of available time is the software programmer assigned to work activities on Thursday?

 

a. 100 percent  

 

b. 200 percent  

 

c. 80 percent     

 

d. 150 percent

 

Estimate Activity Resources focuses exclusively upon the identification of the number of human resources required to perform each scheduled activity.

 

  a. True

 

  b. False

 

Typically, expedited costs are preferred over regular costs.

 

  a. True

 

  b. False

 

Analogous estimating is the most detailed, time consuming and accurate way to estimate.

 

  a. True

 

  b. False

 

Which estimating technique uses a statistical relationship to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and other project parameters?

 

a. grass roots estimating              

 

b. analogous estimating               

 

c. empirical estimating  

 

d. parametric estimating              

 

The documentation of a project cost estimate generally requires substantial supporting detail to include all of these EXCEPT:

 

a. assumptions and constraints.               

 

b. management reserve needs

 

c. a description of scope.             

 

d. the estimating methods and a range of possible outcomes.

 

Value engineering is aimed at increasing the value or productivity of a work element while minimizing the cost.

 

  a. True

 

  b. False

 

If the project manager changes an activity on the critical path to start at a later date, then the whole project will end at a later date.

 

  a. True

 

  b. False

 

This term is defined as the total number of work periods (not including holidays or other non-work periods) required to complete a schedule activity, usually expressed as workdays or workweeks:

 

 a. effort             

 

b. duration         

 

c. resource days              

 

d. elapsed time

 

Which of these is NOT one of the items that can provide useful assistance to a project team to define the activities of a project?

 

 a. the major milestones from the Project Charter           

 

b. issue logs       

 

c. templates or checklists for projects of the same type

 

d. schedules from similar, previous projects

 

The length of time to perform an activity is often dependent upon who will do that work.

 

  a. True

 

  b. False

 

Even small delays on “near-critical” activities can change the critical path of a project.

 

  a. True

 

  b. False