Question 1: Explain how you would designate a leader for each project and how they should use the various tools below to ensure all personnel are actively engaged. Create a small Gant chart for an imaginary project
Question 2: Explain how various tools and techniques help project managers perform activity duration estimating.
Question 3: Use a Gantt chart for planning and tracking schedule information, find the critical path for a project, and describe how critical chain scheduling and the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) affect schedule development.
Question 4: Describe how project management software can assist in project time management and review words of caution before using this software.
Question 5: Explain how you would organize your personnel to accomplish the project management goals. Using the bullets below, explain how you would train your teams to address the following tasks.
- Understand the importance of project schedules and good project time management.
- Define activities as the basis for developing project schedules.
- Describe how project managers use network diagrams and dependencies to assist in activity sequencing.
- Explain how you would approach cost estimation and what tools you would use?
- Examine how resources, quality, and communication can affect project management.
- Understand the importance of project cost management.
- Explain basic project cost management principles, concepts, and terms.