Exam 11: Advanced Topics in Planning and Scheduling: Agile and Critical Chain

Wayne and Garth are engaged in XP and are writing code while sitting at one terminal. In XP terminology, they are engaged in:

A project consists of four activities with information as shown in the table. What is the overall standard deviation of the project's duration?

Wayne and Garth are engaged in XP and are constantly streamlining the design and improving the code. In XP terminology, they are engaged in:

Your next project consists of 8 consecutive 8-day activities, each estimated by a different worker in your organization. Your organizational culture dictates that you add your own safety margin of 3 days into your estimates. Unbeknownst to you, the project manager has recently converted to a critical chain project management view. The project manager knows perfectly well what sorts of games are played with activity estimates and she knows exactly how much activity padding takes place. What will the overall project safety margin be once the project manager reviews your estimates and makes the project schedule?

Which statement about critical chain project management is BEST?

A project consists of four activities with information as shown in the table. What is the overall standard deviation of the project?

A project is represented by the activity durations (in days, estimated at 90% likelihood of completion) and precedence requirements shown in the table. How many feeder buffers are needed if this project is managed using critical chain methodology?

Once the organization elevates its constraint, its system has no constraint.

Your boss catches you at the water cooler one morning and assigns you an important task-to remove all the constraints from your project using the Theory of Constraints (TOC) five step process. What should your response be to your boss??

Agile project management features a logical series of steps that occur sequentially, each one is begun only when its predecessor is complete.

Goldratt's solution to the variables involved in project scheduling involves the aggregation, or collectivizing, of all project risk in the form of uncertain duration estimates and completion times. Provide practical examples of how this aggregation works to the benefit of the overall project.

Which of the following statement is BEST?

Picture yourself as a project manager intent on bringing CCPM to your organization that has historically used classic critical path project management. How would you convince your project team to develop 50% estimates for their project contributions rather than the 90% estimates they have used since they started with the company?

What are the implications for due dates and milestones when project slack is reapplied to the aggregated level?

Keith welds a one-fourth-inch diameter ball bearing and a three-eighths-inch diameter ball bearing on each end of an eighth-inch diameter cylinder. Sure, the work is tedious, but he knows he's doing his part keeping this country running and lining his employer's pockets with sweet cash. His employer hopes to speed up this activity by hiring another skilled worker, and in doing so will:

In order to resolve a resource conflict, it is advisable to:

A project is represented by the activity durations (estimated at 90% likelihood of completion) and precedence requirements shown in the table. What is the length of the project buffer if this project is managed using critical chain methodology?

A scrum is one iteration of the Agile planning and executing cycle, that is, the actual "work" being done.

In Agile Project Management, the term "scrum" refers to:

Which of these is a drawback for Agile Project Management?