Chapter 3 Planning and Managing the Project
Part 1 Fill Blanks
1. A Project schedule describe the software development cycle for a particular
project by enumerating the phases or stages of the project and breaking each
into discrete tasks or activities to be done.
2. The Schedule is a Time line that shows when activities will begin and end, and
When the related development products will be ready.
3. The Deliverables , that is the Items that the customer expects to see during
project development.
4. An Activity is a part of the project that takes place over o period of time,
whereas a milestone is the completion of an activity- a particular point of time.
5. The Gantt chart depicts the project as a set of discrete pieces of work.
6. The Real time or actual time for an activity is the estimated amount of time
required for the activity to be completed. The available time is the amount of
time available in the schedule for the activity’s completion. slack time or float
time for an activity is the difference between the available time and real time
for that activity
7. The CPM is a path that the slack time at every node is zero.
8. GANTT CHART is used to depict the projects’ schedule .
Part 2 Brief Description and Exercises
1. Gave out some deliverables.
2. Briefly describe the characteristics of software development team’s individual.
3. Do the exercise 2, and 3 of this chaper ( Forth Edition PP. 138-139)
No Activity leading to Precursors
1 A
2 B A