On a recent project in which you serve as the PM, a team of IT developers consistently report task completions at exactly 90% complete, week after week, for many weeks. The percent complete that they report doesn't seem to change, which is hard to believe because the team appears busy and engaged in their work. One practical action that is likely to result in more accurate task completion reporting would be:

Select one:

a. get multiple estimates of percent complete from different developers

b. do the percent completion evaluation yourself as PM without asking the developers

c. ask them to use the PERT formula to evaluate progress and report that result

d. break down the kinds of tasks that IT developers do into smaller parts with visible outcomes

Among the choices below, In project management terminology, the best description of "fast tracking" is:

Select one:

a. breaking down tasks into even smaller durations, enabling quicker execution

b. converting serial activities to parallel execution wherever possible, but it adds risk

c. adding more workers to tasks which are behind schedule

d. shifting team members to double-shift work schedules

The five longest paths through a project's sequence diagram results in durations of 67, 65, 64, 29, and 8 weeks, respectively. Which statement below best summarizes the critical path situation for this project?

Select one:

a. there is one critical path and two near-critical paths

b. there are five critical paths

c. there are four near-critical paths

d. no critical path information can be determined from this data