1. What is total float? 2. What are the difference between free float and total float? 3. What is a constraint? 4. What are the difference between MS Project and Primavera? 5. How to load cost & resource in a program? 6. What is WBS? 7. What is a milestone? What are the types of milestone? 8. What are the difference between flag and milestone activity? 9. What is a critical activity? 10. What is resource allocation and leveling? 11. What is a Baseline Program? 12. What are BSWS, BSWP, and ACWP? 13. What are SV and CV? 14. What is a Budget and how do you compare budget against Actual cost? 15. What is an S – Curve? 16. What is the difference between P3.1, P3E, and P5 etc. 17. What is …show more content…
Duration Chart Crashing vs Fast tracking After the arrival of total duration of the project by estimation technique, the project manager presents the schedule to the PMO/Sponsor/Customer. But the Customer says that the duration has to be reduced without comprising on the scope of the work. Now what is the left out option for Project Manager, either he/she has to add resources or has to run the activities in parallel. Crashing is nothing but adding resources. Of course when the crashing happens, the cost increases, because you are adding extra resources. Crashing Fast tracking represents the activities to be carried out in parallel instead of series. Here the disadvantage is that, it increases the risk in the area of may be quality as the activities are performed parallel. Forward Pass vs Backward Pass After the arrival of critical path in the given network diagram, we need to track closely the activities which are coming under the critical path. And for the activities which are not in the critical path the tracking can be the normal way. But when we say normal, need to know what is the degree of level. This can be determined by the parameter called float or slack. To find the float or the slack we have to perform the Forward pass and Backward pass. Forward pass is moving through the network diagram from start to finish and covering all the paths. Backward pass is moving through the network diagram in the reverse way or from
Being proactive, AODV doesn’t need all its nodes in a network to maintain the routes to destinations rather request a route only when needed i.e., only the nodes which are communicating would require to maintain the route. Also AODV uses sequence numbers to avoid routing loops like in DSDV. Whenever a node needs to communicate with another node, a route has to be found and for that purpose Route Request (RREQ) message is broadcasted to all its neighbors till it reaches the destination node or route to destination. A temporary route table entry in initiated by the RREQ messages throughout the network. Once the destination or a route is found, Route Reply (RREP) message is sent back to source by unicasting along the temporary reverse path of the received RREQ message. RREP message initiates in creating a routing table entries for the destination in intermediate nodes on its way back to source. After certain amount of time these routing table entries expire. Neighbors are detected by periodic HELLO messages (a special RREP message). If a node A does not receive HELLO messages from a neighbor B through which it sends traffic, it assumes that a link is broken and the failure indication is forwarded to its active neighbors. When this message reaches the sources, then either they request a new route by sending new RREQ messages or stop sending data. HELLO messages and the
The project manager is under budget but behind schedule. He/She should spend some of their savings getting more resources to put them back on schedule.
Builds topologies map (Every node knows how to reach to its directly connected neighbors and by making sure that the total of this acknowledge is distributed to every node then every node will have enough information to build a complete map of the network).
Paths with non-zero flow amounts from origin to destination are known, which is mix of violator and common public. As model under investigation need information about all paths and relative flows for each OD (origin-destination) pair of the network.
It demonstrates the workflow behaviour of a system which describes the state of activities by showing the sequence of activities performed in different order. The diagram has branches and forks to describe conditions and parallel activities.
2. Number of weeks each of these activities should be crashed to meet the deadline with the lowest possible increase in cost:
Step 1: Construct a network diagram for the project. (NOTE: EF for activity H should be 19)
Top to Down: When given the total time by project manager, higher level managers tend to squeeze the time to reduce the time and cost. Therefore, lower level manager has to give up the initial schedule to satisfy higher level managers. The finalized time depends on the complexity of the organization: the more layers, the less time to complete a project.
The most important aspects of the project include the budget and the schedule. When presenting the project theory to the key stakeholders and decision makers of a organization, “how long will it take” is one of the main questions or concerns. This is very important in case the health care facility needs to shut down during the project or if there are modifications that have to take place. In the case of the project that I choose there is no need to shut down the health care facility or cause any major modifications, only minor changes will be made. When looking at the roles, the schedule is ultimately left up to the director, manager, and assistant manager. The director would be the one to make the final changes and improvements that are needed for the schedule before it is presented to the key stakeholders.
In the text central route is defined as processing information with careful thought and consideration and using systematic reasoning . I have used the central processing route in many of my decisions to pick a college, the type of degree I want , and voting. For example I can remember on my voters ballot there was a proposal to raise property taxes to help Wayne County Community College, and at that time I was a student after reading the proposal I realized although I did not want to pay higher property taxes some of the things that were in the proposal would ultimately help the school which would gave me an opportunity to have better resources as I continued my education at that school. In the text the peripheral route can be defined as
The stories of Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight are exceptional examples of how literature has evolved. The story of Beowulf was lengthy, but didn’t contain as much description as The Canterbury Tales. Over the course of 300 years (the amount of time between when Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales were written) the way of writing had developed from short story to full books. One story was split into three parts, while another was split into multiple parts. In the three part story , there is a shorter ending than the story with multiple parts. Between Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales, there are vast differences considering the writing styles, word choice, and descriptions.
One of history’s most horrible events is the Jewish holocaust. This was a horrible event in WWII history. This was a mass genocide of millions of Jewish people by the Nazis led by Hitler. In Hitler’s book Mien Kamph, he wrote about getting rid of the jews in germany’s political, intellectual life and culture. He was very open to hating them. Although Hitler did not originally plan on carrying out the systematic mass murder of millions of Jews, this ultimately did happen.
An old adage-plan the work and work the plan, in essence this is the key to successful project management. Project Managers (PM) must first plan out the project and then monitor and control the execution of the program work. There is a tendency for projects to short change the planning process. This is a common mistake. The time spent properly planning will result in reduced cost and duration, and increased quality over the life of the project. Using tried and true best practices for a PM will provide assurance that the program /project will be beneficial and successful.
Also print out the network diagram on two to three pages so that task information can be read.
In field of project management, there are a plethora of mechanisms under perpetual reevaluation. One specific segmentation of project management under such scrutiny pertains to cost duration, which is the time and monetary costs of completing individual tasks within the project’s critical path (IBM Knowledge Center, 2016). The process of monitoring and evaluating the time and financial impacts of each task is referred to as cost duration analysis (IBM Knowledge Center, 2016). A chief concern of cost duration analysis is identifying tasks within the project’s critical path which can reduce project duration (PMI, 2013). A common approach to reducing a project’s duration is task “crashing” (PMI, p.181). According to The Project Management Institute (2013) crashing refers to the process of methodical determining the financial value of increasing a critical path task’s resources in order to decrease project duration (p.181).