<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">'Distractor' - My term for a multiple choice option that is tempting, but incorrect. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px">It is not to be confused with an Irish farmer pointing to his Massey Ferguson</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Good one, Mark! May I use it?</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Regards, </div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Bill Oldham (retired from RMIT and becoming a digital artist - similar to the Irish digital calculator)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 August 2016 at 15:01, Mark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi, workers,<div><br></div><div>I'm wondering how much depth and detail people are including in their teaching of projman.<div><br></div><div>The study design for both SD and Info specifically includes the concepts of <i>milestones</i> and <i>dependencies</i>, so these obviously need to be covered in your theory.</div><div><br></div><div>Question A5 in the SD <a href="http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/exams/technology/it-softdev-specs-samp.pdf" target="_blank">sample exam questions</a> has 'distractor' options* naming <i>critical paths</i> and <i>resources</i>, which are not named in the design, but are key projman concepts nevertheless.</div><div><br></div><div>If I were teaching, I'd find it hard not to be mentioning <i>successors</i> (to complement 'dependencies') and <i>resources</i>. </div><div><br></div><div>But I'd force myself to leave out critical paths. <br>I wouldn't go near lead/lag time and PERT.</div><div><br></div><div>(O, dear PERT. Why did VCAA forsake you?)</div><div><br></div><div>Mark<br></div><div><br></div><div>* 'Distractor' - My term for a multiple choice option that is tempting, but incorrect. </div><div>It is not to be confused with an Irish farmer pointing to his Massey Ferguson.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><br></i></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Mark Kelly</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a><br></div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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