Estimate Activity Durations by Sean Whitaker

About the Lecture

The lecture Estimate Activity Durations by Sean Whitaker is from the course Archiv - PMP Training – Become a Project Management Professional (EN). It contains the following chapters:

Estimate Activity Durations
Inputs
Tools and Techniques
Three-Point Estimates
Standard Deviations
Group Devisions Making Techniques

Included Quiz Questions

You are currently putting together your activity duration estimates . Which of the following would not be a useful input to use?

Project charter.
Schedule management plan.
Activity list.
Resource calendar.

While estimating the activity durations on your project you come across a similar project completed by your organization last year. To save time you use information from this project to help you estimate your activity durations. This is an example of which tool or technique?

Analogous Estimating
Parametric estimating.
Bottom up estimating.
Expert judgment.

To estimate the amount of time it will take to install 500 meters of cable on your project you divide the number of meters required by how many meters an hour the person laying the cable can lay. This is an example of which sort of tool or technique?

Parametric estimating.
Analogous estimating.
Three-point estimating.
Bottom-up estimating.

As a result of a brainstorming session your team determines that the most likely duration of an activity will be 8 days, the optimistic duration is 6 days and the pessimistic duration is 16 days. What is the expected activity duration?

9 days.
8 days.
54 days.
30 days.

1.66 days.
10 days.
9 days.
2.33 days.

What is the range of days for which you have a 95% certainty that you will deliver a project with a most likely duration of 8 days, an optimistic duration of 6 days and a pessimistic duration of 16 days?