PMC101 Chapter 6 Review Questions Section Sagar Vijay Gaidhankar 20071213

Ankitkumar Patel 20077095

Tahiris Pena Castro 20033659

Question 1: How does the WBS differ from the project network?
Answer 1: The WBS is hierarchical while the project network is sequential.
The project network is a visual flow diagram of the sequence, interrelationships, and dependencies of all
the activities that must be accomplished to complete the project; however, the WBS is the method that
successively subdivides the work of the project into smaller detail.

Question 2: How are WBS and project networks linked?

Answer 2: Project networks are developed from the WBS. Work packages from the WBS are used to
build the activities fond in the project network.

Question 3: Why bother creating a WBS? Why not go straight to a project network and forget the WBS?
Answer 3: Because the project network diagram cannot be created effectively without a proper WBS
and because the WBS is an integral part of planning activities in the project.

Question 4: Why is slack important to the project manager?

Answer 4: Slack is important to the project manager because it represents the degree of flexibility the
project manager will have in rearranging work and resources. A project network with several near
critical paths and hence, little slack, gives the project manager little flexibility in changing resources or
rearranging work.

Question 5. . What is the difference between free slack and total slack?
Answer 5. Free slack is the number of days that an activity can have before it starts delaying the next
activity. Total slack is the amount of days that activity can have before it starts delaying the whole
project.

Question 6: Why are lags used in developing project networks?

Answer 6: The use of lags in project networks occurs for two major reasons:
 When activities of long duration delay the start or finish of successor activities, the network
designer normally breaks the activity into smaller activities to avoid the long delay of the
successor activity. Use of lags can avoid such delays and reduce network detail.
 Lags can be used to constrain the start and finish of an activity.

Question 7: What is a hammock activity, and when is it used?

Answer 7: A hammock activity is a grouping of subtasks that spans over a segment of a project.
Hammock activities are used to identify the use of fixed resources or costs over a segment of the
project. They may also be used to aggregate sections of a project and facilitate getting the right level of
detail for specific sections of the project