You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Your project is falling behind though the project
team reports that the actual durations of their work is what they estimated. You investigate the
cause and determine that the project team is not starting their assignments early enough to finish
their work on time. While the duration of the assignments may be in synchronization with the
duration estimates, the completion time is causing the project schedule to slip from the baseline.
What can you do to rectify this problem?

A.
Increase the duration estimates for each activity.
Soft logic describes activities that do not have particular resources assigned to them.

B.
Discipline the project team.
Soft logic describes activities that can be completed in any order.

C.
Add management reserve.
It is method of identifying and eliminating the causes of a problem, thus preventing their
reappearance. Examples of a corrective action are :Improvements to maintenance
schedulesImprovements to material handling or storage
Answer option C is incorrect. Management reserve is time and funds allotted for unforeseen
issues and risks within the project.
Answer option A is incorrect. Padding each estimate may cause the project to succumb to
Parkinson’s Law: work expands to fill the amount of time allotted to it. In addition, the project team
may still delay the start time of their project assignments.
Answer option B is incorrect. Disciplining the project team may be a good option if the problem
continues. The best option is to first apply corrective actions.
QUESTION 98
Tom is the project manager of the GHQ Project for his organization. He is working on recovering
the project schedule. As Tom examines his schedule he is especially aware of project activities
with soft logic. What is soft logic?
Soft logic describes activities that can have lead time added to them.

D.
Corrective actions.
Soft logic describes activities that can be crashed because they are effort-driven.

C.
Add management reserve.
It is method of identifying and eliminating the causes of a problem, thus preventing their
reappearance. Examples of a corrective action are :Improvements to maintenance
schedulesImprovements to material handling or storage
Answer option C is incorrect. Management reserve is time and funds allotted for unforeseen
issues and risks within the project.
Answer option A is incorrect. Padding each estimate may cause the project to succumb to
Parkinson’s Law: work expands to fill the amount of time allotted to it. In addition, the project team
may still delay the start time of their project assignments.
Answer option B is incorrect. Disciplining the project team may be a good option if the problem
continues. The best option is to first apply corrective actions.
QUESTION 98
Tom is the project manager of the GHQ Project for his organization. He is working on recovering
the project schedule. As Tom examines his schedule he is especially aware of project activities
with soft logic. What is soft logic?
Soft logic describes activities that can have lead time added to them.

A.
Increase the duration estimates for each activity.
Soft logic describes activities that do not have particular resources assigned to them.

B.
Discipline the project team.
Soft logic describes activities that can be completed in any order.

C.
Add management reserve.
It is method of identifying and eliminating the causes of a problem, thus preventing their
reappearance. Examples of a corrective action are :Improvements to maintenance
schedulesImprovements to material handling or storage
Answer option C is incorrect. Management reserve is time and funds allotted for unforeseen
issues and risks within the project.
Answer option A is incorrect. Padding each estimate may cause the project to succumb to
Parkinson’s Law: work expands to fill the amount of time allotted to it. In addition, the project team
may still delay the start time of their project assignments.
Answer option B is incorrect. Disciplining the project team may be a good option if the problem
continues. The best option is to first apply corrective actions.
QUESTION 98
Tom is the project manager of the GHQ Project for his organization. He is working on recovering
the project schedule. As Tom examines his schedule he is especially aware of project activities
with soft logic. What is soft logic?
Soft logic describes activities that can have lead time added to them.

D.
Corrective actions.
Soft logic describes activities that can be crashed because they are effort-driven.

Explanation:
Corrective actions should be taken to move the results of the project work back into alignment with
the project scope. The project team must start their activities on time and finish on time. A
corrective action is a change implemented to address a weakness identified in a management
system. Normally corrective actions are implemented in response to a customer complaint,
abnormal levels of internal nonconformity, nonconformities identified during an internal audit or
adverse or unstable trends in product and process monitoring such as would be identified by SP

Soft logic can be completed in any order without affecting the outcome of the deliverables. Soft
logic is also known as preferential logic, preferred logic, and discretionary dependency. It is
defined on the basis of knowledge of best practices and standard procedures for the particular
application area. Soft logic is defined by the project management team based on well- known
practices in a specific desired sequence.
Answer options A, D, and C are incorrect. These are not valid definitions of soft logic.