Critical Project Management Tools

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Part Two: Using Critical Project Management Tools

Answer the following questions about the project network below, using as much space as you need.

1. Map the earliest start times for each activity to the resource demands over time. What are the earliest start times for each activity?

2. Create a left-justified schedule for the project above.

3. Assuming you have five people available (with similar skills), level the schedule so it is consistent with resource availabilities. What is the new project duration?

Procurement and Human Resources

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How to convince a CEO or the owner of a start-up business on the power, applicability, and advantage of Project Management specifically in the areas of Procurement and Human Resources.

Program Increment (PI) Planning

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Which two activities take place during Team Breakout on the first day of Program Increment (PI) Planning? (Choose two.)

Draft objectives and uncommitted objectives are written
Teams use color-coding for their backlog items as a reminder that they are required to have all backlog item types on their planning boards
Risks teams’ planning boards are resolved by the Release Train Engineer
Draft objectives are written but do not include exploration Enablers
Al teams’ planning boards are visible and use the same color-coding

program predictability measure

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What are two main reasons why the program predictability measure is important? (Choose two.) 

  1. It identifies under-performing teams
  2. It focuses the Agile Release Train on value delivery
  3. It indicates whether the Solution is ready to be released
  4. It demonstrates the need to fix the scope at the beginning of the Program Increment (PI)
  5.  It identifies variations to discuss in the Inspect and Adapt workshop

bone structures

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Activity: Given a possible grouping or classification of bone structures/terms for which you are responsible, explain why that grouping or classification is or is not valid. Help

Q1. Does the diaphysis of a long bone include osteons? Explain your reasoning.

Q2. Is hyaline cartilage part of the organic component of bone tissue? Explain your reasoning.

Q3. Does appositional growth involve osteoclasts? Explain your reasoning.

Q4. Are canaliculi made of collagen? Explain your reasoning.

VLQ 5.5.1. Briefly define the following terms from this slide: • DEXA (DXA) • T-score • osteoporosis

Agile Release Train (ART)

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What are three good key performance indicators to check the health of an Agile Release Train (ART)? (Choose three.)

Number of commits per Iteration

Solution velocity

Percent of Features accepted

Predictability measure

Number of retrospectives held

Number of defects

SOCIAL SCIENCEANTHROPOLOGY

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What are the skeletal and behavioral traits that define modern Homo sapiens? What are the evolutionary explanations for its presence?

benefits of Communities of Practice.

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What are two benefits of Communities of Practice.

a. They enable visibility into the skill matric in large enterprise

b. They provide access to expertise

c. They increase coordination, synergy across units

d. They provide an arena for managers who might not find their role on the SAFe big picture

e. They reduce the Work in Process

scaled agile framework

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Relentless improvement as defined in the scaled agile framework includes which two activities?

Apply lean problem-solving tools and techniques

Hold employee reviews to provide fast feedback

Build long term relationship based on trust

Reflect at key milestones

Hold people accountable

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In order to leverage the full flow of value which option should be the next Agile Release Train (ART) to launch?

A train in a different portfolio

The next train to volunteer

A train in the same value stream

A train in a different value stream