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Systems Analysis and Development Approaches

Project management, Gantt charts and critical path analysis

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Overview

Project management, four activities a project manager performs and milestone in a project plan.

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Why does a project manager use a Gantt chart and critical path analysis together?

Key term

What is project management?

Key term

Name four activities a project manager performs.

Questions from this subtopic

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  1. 1

    What is project management?

    Model answer

    Project management is the planning, scheduling, monitoring and control of the work needed to deliver a system on time, within budget and to the agreed standard.

  2. 2

    Name four activities a project manager performs.

    Model answer

    A project manager breaks the work into tasks, estimates and schedules them, allocates staff and resources to them, and monitors progress against the plan.

  3. 3

    What is a milestone in a project plan?

    Model answer

    A milestone is a checkpoint marking the completion of a significant part of the work, and progress is reported by the milestones reached.

  4. 4

    What is a deliverable?

    Model answer

    A deliverable is an item the project must hand over, such as the requirements specification, the tested program or the user documentation.

  5. 5

    What is a work breakdown structure?

    Model answer

    A work breakdown structure splits the whole project into successively smaller tasks until each task is small enough to be estimated, assigned and tracked.

  6. 6

    What does a Gantt chart show?

    Model answer

    A Gantt chart shows each task of a project as a horizontal bar drawn against a calendar, so the start, the duration and the overlap of tasks can all be read at once.

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