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What is the purpose of the traffic light method in assessment?
What is the purpose of the traffic light method in assessment?
- To review all first level and second level assessments separately
- To identify only the first level elements for assessment
- To produce final results without reviewing the assessments
- To assess key elements and their sub-levels using color codes for on-target, not on-target but recoverable, and not on-target with difficulty (correct)
What does a Gantt chart primarily display?
What does a Gantt chart primarily display?
- Scheduled activity dates and durations in a bar chart (correct)
- Activities that are not progressing on schedule
- The way in which targets have changed throughout the project duration
- Start and completion points for activities using circles
What is the main purpose of a slip chart?
What is the main purpose of a slip chart?
- To show activities that are not progressing on schedule (correct)
- To record and display scheduled activity dates and durations
- To display the way targets have changed throughout the project duration
- To indicate start and completion points for activities using circles
In a ball wall chart, what do circles represent?
In a ball wall chart, what do circles represent?
What does a timeline record and display?
What does a timeline record and display?
What is the purpose of a Gantt chart?
What is the purpose of a Gantt chart?
What does a ball wall chart represent?
What does a ball wall chart represent?
What is the main purpose of a slip chart?
What is the main purpose of a slip chart?
What is the traffic light method used for in assessment?
What is the traffic light method used for in assessment?
What does a timeline record and display?
What does a timeline record and display?
Study Notes
Project Monitoring & Control
- Project monitoring involves tracking progress, assessing risks, and revising targets to correct deviations from the plan.
- It involves comparing actual outcomes with planned outcomes and replanning if necessary.
Key Activities
- Project activities must have clearly defined and visible completion points.
Project Monitoring Process
- Start with an initial plan
- Gather information and revise the plan as needed
- Compare progress with targets
- Take remedial action if progress is not satisfactory
- Complete and review the project
- Document conclusions
Common Issues
- Delays in meeting target dates
- Shortfalls in quality
- Inadequate functionality
- Costs going over target
Project Responsibility
- Overall responsibility: Project steering committee/project board
- Day-to-day responsibility: Project manager
Reporting Methods
- Oral formal regular
- Oral formal ad hoc
- Written formal regular
- Written formal ad hoc
- Oral informal ad hoc
Types of Reporting
- Partial completion reporting (e.g. time sheets to charge staff time to individual jobs)
- Risk reporting
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Description
Learn about monitoring project progress, assessing risks, revising targets, and controlling changes to project requirements. Understand the process of finding out what is happening, comparing it with current targets, and replanning if needed.
