6.2 Exercise In the below table, identify which activities are involved in Estimate Activity Resources. Here or in your Exercise Notebook write “ Y” if the described action is part of the Estimate Activity Resources process. If it’s not, write “N.”

Action: Is it part of Estimate Activity Resources? (Y/N)

1. Review project management plan.

2. Review scope baseline.

3. Review resource availability.

4. Review cost estimates.

5. Get one time estimate per activity.

6. Complete an analysis of the reserves needed on the project.

7. Create a company calendar identifying working and nonworking days.

8. Create milestones.

9. Review the WBS, activity list, and activity attributes.

10. Review the risk register and assumption log.

11. Identify potentially available resources and their skill levels.

12. Review historical information about the use of resources on similar projects.

13. Review organizational policies on resource use.

14. See how leads and lags affect the time estimate.

15. Solicit expert judgment on what resources are needed and available.

16. Create bottom-up, analogous, or parametric estimates.

17. Analyze alternative equipment or methods to use in completing the work and approaches to better utilize resources.

18. Show network dependencies per activity.

19. Identify areas of the project that cannot be completed internally or would otherwise be more efficiently achieved through outsourcing. This information will be shared with the procurement department.

20. Crash the project.

21. Break the activity down further if the activity is too complex to estimate resources

(bottom-up estimating).

22. Quantify resource requirements by activity.

23. Create a hierarchical image that organizes the planned resources by their category and type (a resource breakdown structure).

24. Fast track the project.

25. Develop the schedule.

26. Develop a plan as to what types of resources will be used.

27. Update project documents.