Project Management

Review Questions

Name : John Bolton

Answer the following questions:

1) What is the difference between a task dependency and a task constraint?

The difference between a task’s dependencies and its constraints lie in the time. A

Dependency joins two tasks by saying that one task begins relative to a different task,

where a constraint simply puts the correlation directly to a time rather than base it off of the

time where another task is completed or started.

2) Give a real-world situation when you might used the following task constraints:

a) Start No Earlier Than

When you have a project that needs to start at a certain date and no earlier than that date.

b) Start No Later Than

When a project is time constrained but needs to be started no later than a certain date.

c) Finish No Later Than

This means when they need to finish no later than a certain date,

d) Finish No Earlier Than

This means when a project needs to finish any earlier than a specific date,

e) Must Finish On

This means a project must finish on a particular date.

f) Must Start On

This means the project must start at a certain date.

g) As Late As Possible

This means the project or something within the project must be done as late as possible.

3) What is the importance of a baseline?

The project baseline is an original snapshot of the project in terms of schedule, cost, and scope. The main importance of the project baseline is that it can be used to see how much, throughout the project, we are deviating from the original schedule, cost, and scope.

4) What is an interim plan?

An interim plan is a set of current project data that a user saves after the project begins. A user can compare the interim plan against the baseline to assess the progress of the project.