Assessment
Part A - Written or Oral Questions
Complete the following individually. Answer each question in as much detail as possible, considering your organizational requirements for each one.
1. Create a work breakdown structure.
2. Create a project schedule.
3. What time management techniques will you apply to your project?
4. How will you monitor and update your project schedule?
5. What implications can time management have on project resources, costs and risks?
6. Describe your methods for estimating task duration and resource effort.
7. Who would you need to meet and communicate with in order to produce both your work breakdown structure and project schedule?
Part B - Written or Oral Questions
This is a major activity - your instructor will let you know whether you will complete it during class or in your own time. You must individually, answer the following questions in full to show your competency of each element:
- Assist in developing project schedule
- Maintain project schedule
- Participate in assessing time-management outcomes.
1. What does a work breakdown structure involve?
2. In order to achieve project deliverables, how can you estimate the duration and effort, sequence and dependencies of tasks?
3. How can project scheduling tools and techniques be used to identify schedule impact?
4. What is a schedule baseline and how can it be communicated with stakeholders?
5. What techniques can be used to measure, record and report the progress of activities in relation to the agreed schedule?
6. How can you record baseline variance between actual and planned progress?
7. How can you forecast the impact of change on the schedule?
8. How can you update task status and agreed changes to maintain currency and accuracy of schedule?
9. In order to determine the effectiveness of time management, how can you review project performance?
10. How can you scheduling and time management issues and responses be documented? How will these assist in project evaluation?