Thomas works as a contract-based project manager for BlueWell Inc. Management has hired
Thomas to manage a high-risk project because Thomas has years of experience with this
technology and similar project. Thomas would like to use his own templates for the project
schedule, quality, and risk management approach. Management is fine with this, except after
reviewing the template they had preferred Thomas to use 24-hour time periods for his project
calendar rather than the 8-hour time periods as indicated. Thomas agrees, but now he has to
update what document in his project management plan?
A.
Project calendar
B.
Activity attributes
C.
Resource calendar
D.
Schedule management plan
Explanation:
The project calendar needs to be updated to reflect the 24-hour time period rather than the 8-hour
time period. The project calendar is used to define the working and nonworking days and times for
tasks. This calendar is usually used to represent an organization’s traditional working hours.
Project uses this calendar to schedule tasks that do not have resources assigned or that have a
task type of fixed duration. By default, the Standard base calendar is used as the project calendar.
A user can also reflect alternative schedules by using other base calendars. The working days and
hours in the project calendar reflect the working days and hours for the whole project. A user can
also specify special days off, such as company holidays. A user can also indicate other
nonworking times to reflect periods when the whole team will be working on nonproject activities,
such as company meetings or department retreats.
Answer option D is incorrect. The schedule management plan will reference to the project
calendar and the resource calendar. It does not need to be updated directly as a result of the time
period change.
Answer option C is incorrect. The resource calendar does not need to be updated as this
document defines when resources are available.
Answer option B is incorrect. The activities of the project are not changing, only the time periods of
the project calendar.