PMP QUICK STUDY GUIDE by PMASPIRE

PMP QUICK STUDY GUIDE

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Discretionary Dependency (Preferred, Preferential, or Soft Logic): The project manager or team determines this dependency. Can change a discretionary dependency if needed but cannot easily change the other types of dependencies. External Dependency: The dependency is based on the needs or desires of a party outside the project (e.g., government or suppliers). Internal Dependencies: Internal dependencies involve a precedence relationship between project activities and are generally inside the project team’s control. For example, ‘unable to test a machine until assembled’ is an internal mandatory dependency.

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Lead: A lead allows an acceleration of the successor activity. For example, on a project to construct a new office building, the landscaping could be scheduled to start 2 weeks ‘prior’ to the scheduled punch list (list of contract items) completion. This would be shown as a FS with a 2-week lead. LAG: A lag directs a delay in the successor activity. For example, a technical writing team can begin editing the draft of a large document 15 days ‘after’ writing has started. This could be shown as an SS relationship with a 15-day lag.

PMIS: scheduling software used to help plan, organize, and adjust activity sequence based on logical relationships, lead/lag, and dependencies. OUTPUTS: Project Schedule Network Diagram: A graphical representation of the logical relationships, also referred to as dependencies, among the project schedule activities. Depicts a project schedule network diagram. Project Documents Updates: includes activity attributes and list, milestone list, and assumption log. Process Estimate Activity Durations

Knowledge Area Schedule Management

Process Group Planning

Estimate Activity Durations: Estimate the number of work periods (amount of time) needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources (e.g., amounts, types, and skill levels). INPUTS: Includes PMP (schedule management plan and scope baseline), project documents (including activities, assumptions, lessons learned, team assignments, resource breakdown structure / calendars / requirements, and risk register), and EEFs/OPAs (e.g., productivity metrics, historical information, etc.). TOOLS & TECHNIQUES: Expert Judgment: By any group or individual with specialized knowledge or training on schedule development, estimating, and discipline or application knowledge. Analogous Estimating: Top-down estimating, uses the actual duration of activities from historical data on previous, similar projects. Is less costly and less time-consuming, but tends also to be less accurate.