Your next project consists of 8 consecutive 8-day activities,each estimated by a different worker in your organization.Your organizational culture dictates that you add your own safety margin of 3 days into your estimates.Unbeknownst to you,the project manager has recently converted to a critical chain project management view.The project manager knows perfectly well what sorts of games are played with activity estimates and she knows exactly how much activity padding takes place.What will the overall project safety margin be once the project manager reviews your estimates and makes the project schedule?
A)12 days
B)6 days
C)18 days
D)9 days

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The project manager, using critical chain project management, will likely aggregate the safety margins into a project buffer rather than allowing each activity to have its own padding. With 8 activities and each having a 3-day safety margin, the total padding is 24 days. However, critical chain typically uses about 50% of the total padding as a project buffer, resulting in a 12-day safety margin.

Your Next Project Consists of 8 Consecutive 8-Day Activities,each Estimated