The chart shows a firm’s complete time-and-task schedule for the marketing team, planning team, and development team involved in the launching of a new product.
Based on the information in the graph, select from each drop-down menu the option that creates the most accurate statement.
Only the __________ team is scheduled to return to a task after several weeks away from it.Scanning the labels on the graph, we can see that each vertical column represents a week and each row represents a task.
So, in the case of a team being "scheduled to return to a task after several weeks away from it," we'll see in a row a period of one or more weeks, represented by columns, for which a team is scheduled to handle a task, then a gap of some weeks, and then another period of one or more weeks for which the same team is scheduled to handle that same task.
Scanning the graph for such a pattern, we see it in the top row, market research: in that row, the marketing team is scheduled for the first two weeks, then there is a gap of five weeks, and then the marketing team is scheduled to handle the same task for two more weeks.
Since the statement indicates that we're looking for the "only" team scheduled in that way, we can stop there since we've found a team scheduled that way, which must be the only one.
Select
marketing.
Only the __________ team is scheduled to work simultaneously on three of the tasks.
For a team to be scheduled to work simultaneously on three tasks, the team's marking must appear in the same week, represented by a column, three times.
Scanning the graph, we see that, in the week 12 column, the development team's marking appears three times, in the development, test plan, and testing and QA rows.
Select
development.
Correct answer: marketing,
development