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Question #: 98
Topic #: 2
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You are the project manager for your organization. You are working with your virtual team to create activity duration estimates for your current project. This virtual team is comprised of team members from around the world. Much of this process will be completed by geographical locations though some conferences will require all the team members to participate and to coordinate the activities that will interact between the different sites. The project manager must consider all of the following when creating the activity duration estimates except for which one?

  • A. Project calendar
  • B. Critical path
  • C. Resource calendar
  • D. Time zone differences
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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️
When it comes to creating the project's activity duration estimating, the critical path is not yet a concern. The critical path will be determined by the duration of the project activities and the sequencing of the project events. A critical path is the sequence of project activities, which add up to the longest overall duration. This determines the shortest time possible to complete the project. Any delay of an activity on the critical path directly impacts the planned project completion date (i.e. there is no float on the critical path). A project can have several, parallel, near critical paths. An additional parallel path through the network with the total durations shorter than the critical path is called a sub-critical or non-critical path. These results allow managers to prioritize activities for the effective management of project completion, and to shorten the planned critical path of a project by pruning critical path activities, by "fast tracking" (i.e., performing more activities in parallel), and/ or by "crashing the critical path" (i.e., shortening the durations of critical path activities by adding resources).
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A: The project calendar must be considered to determine when the project work is allowed to take place in the different sites.
C: The resource calendar must be considered for the availability of the project resource.
D: Time zone differences must be considered for communication demands and coordination of events between the geographical sites.
by jalaljaafarsalman at May 11, 2020, 10:13 p.m.

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jalaljaafarsalman
11 months, 3 weeks ago
As long as the project manager will shorten the critical path duration by adding resources then the critical path must be considered when creating the activity duration estimates during planning.
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Mopar
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The question has to do with the underlying issue of geographically dispersed teams. Critical path in this instance wouldnt matter.
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