Exam 8: Scheduling Resources and Costs

Resource constraints can be overcome by creative and efficient scheduling.

While balancing assignments, a project manager must also balance:

Resource bottlenecks are one of the three more common problems encountered in managing multiproject resource schedules.

Resource leveling or smoothing is only used on projects which are resource constrained.

When leveling schedules to overcome resource constraints, ___________ is increased.

Splitting is a scheduling technique used to get a better schedule or better resource utilization and should be used without hesitation.

In reviewing the status of a project with top management, a team leader was told that there are only two programmers that can be used for the project. The project is classified as __________ constrained.

When using resource-constrained scheduling, activities that were once scheduled to be completed at the same time now may have to be scheduled in sequence. What are the "rules of thumb" or heuristics that need to be followed to determine which activity is scheduled first?

All of the following are benefits of scheduling resources before project implementation EXCEPT

If a project needs one earth mover six months from now in order to complete one activity, and the organization has four such machines, there is no equipment resource constraint.

When resource constraints are added to technical constraints the original project network may change as well as the completion date.

In reality resource allocation generally occurs in a(n) ___________ environment where the demands of one project have to be reconciled with the needs of other projects.

When developing a new software package, logically, the software must be designed before the code is written, and the code must be written before it is tested. These activities are dependent on each other by _________ constraints.

Renovation of a small compartment in a houseboat or camping trailer that is too small for more than one person is an example of a(n) ________ resource constraint.

Which of the following is NOT one of the more common problems associated with scheduling multi-project resources?

All leveling techniques delay noncritical activities by using positive slack to smooth out the resource requirements.

Since resource leveling or smoothing delays noncritical activities, a common result is a decrease in network sensitivity.

Delaying noncritical activities to lower peak demand and, thus, increase resource utilization is called resource __________.

All resource leveling techniques involve

In a resource-constrained project the second priority in assigning resources is usually given to activities with the