EML - (Week 4)

12 flashcards · Psychology · by Meg b

1. What does the work breakdown structure do?

   Decomposes project into identifiable activities

2. Predecessors are activities that must be completed before a later activity

3. Successors are activities that cannot be started until previous activities have been completed

4. What is sequencing?

   Identifying the logical order of project activities

5. What does a network diagram show?

   A schematic representation of the sequence of activities and the relationships between them

6. Serial activities flow from one to the next sequentially

7. Concurrent activities can simultaneously occur along parallel project paths

8. How do we decide the duration of each activity?

   experience expert option mathematical derivation

9. What is the the critical path?

   The longest path from start to end of the project

10. What does the critical path determine?

    Shortest length the project can be

11. Delays on the critical path will most likely result in project failure

12. What can the WBS be used to develop?

    estimate of project budget project schedule