Chapter 4
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| The 3 critical components of a project are... | Time, Budget & Requirements
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| The activity of documenting, managing, and continually improving the process of systems development is... | Process management
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| (Blank) is uncontrolled addition of technical features to a system. | Feature creep
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| (Blank) is unexpected and gradual growth of requirements during an information systems project. | Scope creep
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| (Blank) is anarrative description of the work to be performed as part of a project. Common synonyms include scope statement, project definition, project overview, and document of understanding. | A Statement of work
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| (Blank) is a graphical tool used to depict the hierarchical decomposition of the project into phases, activities, and tasks. | Work Breakdown Stucture
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| (Blank) is an event signifying the completion of a major project deliverable. | Milestone
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| A project scheduling approach that establishes a project start date and then schedules forward from that date. | Forward scheduling
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| A project scheduling strategy that establishes a project deadline and then schedules backward from that date. | Reverse scheduling
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| Project management is the process of scoping, planning, staffing, organizing, directing, and controlling the development of an acceptable system at a minimum cost within a specified time frame. | True
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| Feature creep is the uncontrolled addition of technical features to a system under development without regard to schedule and budget. | True
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| One key to successful project management is to commit to a fixed budge and schedule as early as possible and then stick to it. | False, Premature commitment to a fixed budge and schedule is one of the common project mismanagement problems.
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| Each bar on a Gantt chart represents a named project task. | True
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| GANTT is an acronym that stands for Group Activity Network Time Table. | False, Gantt is the last name of the inventor of the Gantt chart. PERT is an acronym that stands for Project Evaluation and Review Technique.
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| A Gantt chart is a graphical network model that depicts a project's tasks and the relationships between those tasks. | False, A PERT chart is a graphical, network model that depicts a project's tasks and the relationships between those tasks. A Gantt chart is a simple horizontal bar chart that depicts project tasks against a calendar.
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| PERT charts were developed to make clear the interdependence between project tasks. | True
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| Milestones have no duration. | True
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| The critical path for a project is that sequence of dependent tasks that have the largest sum of most likely durations. The critical path determines the earliest possible completion date of a project. | True
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| The slack time available for any non-critical task is the amount of delay that can be tolerated between the starting time and completion time of a task without causing a delay in the completion date of the entire project. | True
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| "Identify Business Requirements" is an example of a milestone. | False, A milestone is an event that signifies the completion of a major project deliverable. Identify Business Requirements would be an activity or task leading up to the requirements statement milestone.
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| An ongoing activity that documents, manages the use of, and improves an organization's chosen methodology for systems development is: | Process Management
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| Estimated Duration does not appear on a PERT Chart | True
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| ________________ is the unexpected growth of user expectations and business requirements for an information system as the project progresses. | Scope Creep
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| ________________ is a graphical model that depicts a project as a series of events and milestones that are dependent on one another. | PERT Chart
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| ________________ stands for project evaluation and review technique. | PERT
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| A ________________________ is a simple horizontal bar chart that depicts project tasks against a calendar. | Gantt
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| PERT charts were developed to make clear the _____________________ between project tasks before those tasks are scheduled. | interdependence
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