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?

You are the project manager for your organization. You are discussing an upcoming project with
management and they would like you to begin decomposing the project work packages into
activities as soon as possible. You have explained to the management that you would like to
involve your roject team before the decomposition of the work packages begins. Why would you
want your project team to involve in this activity?

Sam is the project manager for his organization. His project is not doing well on project schedule
performance, and management wants him to predict how the project schedule and cost will end.
Management has asked Sam to report and forecast his project’s performance based on the Delphi
Method, scenario building, technology forecasting, and to forecast by analogy. What forecasting
method is management asking Sam to use?

You work as the project manager for Blue Well Inc. You are working with your project team to
schedule the days the project work will take place. You have created a project network diagram as
shown in the figure:

Based on this diagram, find out the earliest day on which Activity G can be started.

You are the project manager for your organization. Your project will be utilizing a piece of
equipment during its process of completion. There is some concern that your project’s use of the
equipment may conflict with another project. What document will help you determine when and
how long you will use the shared equipment?

What schedule analysis simulation tool allows you, the project manager, to review possible
combinations of events such as optimistic, most likely and pessimistic outcomes for your project?