Project Management

Review Questions

Answer the following questions (use MS Project help if necessary):

1)Define effort-driven?

When you assign or remove people from a task, Project lengthens or shortens the duration of the task based on the amount of resource units assigned to it

2)Under what circumstances would you turn off effort driven scheduling?

When it doesn’t apply to the particular task

3)Use a real-world example of when you would make a task as a Fixed Duration type task?

If a stylist has 2 weeks of scheduled hair appointments, 1 week of documentation and 2 days of client review and knows she has a hair coloring and a style and set in each one at 100%. Fixed duration works since it can adjust the schedule really easily and the work effort calculated

4)What is the formula for calculating duration?

Work/Units = Duration

5) What are the eight preset work contours (hint: In the Task Usage view right click on a resource name an open the assignment information box) and what are the procedures in applying them to a resource on a task?

Flat-work hours are even throughout

Back loaded-work increases toward the end of the task

Front loaded-work decreases toward start of the task

Double peak-two peaks occur over task duration

Early peak-peak activity occurs during the first quarter

Late peak-peak activity occurs during the last quarter

Bell-hours peak in the middle, hours low at start and finish

Turtle-same as bell but start/finish units are high