Section 6.4 Estimate Activity Durations

Week 2 Reading Assignments
Please complete the following reading assignments:
PMBOK
Section 6.2 Define Activities
Section 6.4 Estimate Activity Durations
Section 7.2 Estimate Costs
Based on this week’s reading and lecture materials, write a response that addresses the following:
A brief description of the current estimating practices primarily employed at your organization on projects (if you do not know the approach or no formal approach is used, then use this response as an opportunity to state an approach based on what you have learned in the lectures and reading)
List a couple of strengths and weaknesses of the approach used
If you prefer the current method, then discuss how the process might be improved
If you don’t prefer the current estimating method, then provide a justification of why the method should be changed.
Again, if you don’t know what method is used, then use this section to argue and justify the approach you think would be best.