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What are five common reasons for crashing a project?
Crushing is a project schedule compression technique and which cost and schedule a trade-off are analyzed to decrease the project duration with minimal additional cost. A number of alternative are analyzed including the assessment of additional resources. Approving overtime pay for prizes resources is another example of crashing.
For example let us say you create your projects initial schedule in February and it works out to 12 months but your project sponsor wants it completed before Christmas this year which means you have only 9 months. You will use crashing to reduce the overall project schedule to finish the work according to the revised date.
in our book is state five different reasons they are as follow:
1 the cost time relationship is lean your
2 normal time assume low cost efficient method to complete the activity
3 Crash Time represents a limit the greatest time reduction possible under realistic conditions
4 slow represent cost per unit of time and
5 all exclamation must occur within the normal and crash time
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of reducing project scope to accelerate a project? What can be done to reduce the disadvantages?
the advantages of reducing project scope to accelerate a project is:
less work to be done less resources will be used work will be completed faster
the disadvantages of reducing project scope to accelerate a project is:
not everything that is required to be done the project coming not be fully useful
for example in our book it states that over budget movie projects it is not uncommon to replace location shots with stock footage to cut costs.
3. Why is scheduling overtime a popular choice for getting projects back on schedule? What are the potential problems for relying on this option?
