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How to shorten a schedule

How to shorten a schedule

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How to shorten a schedule

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- [Instructor] Stakeholders can be an inpatient bunch. You estimate when the project will finish and more often than not, they ask if you can deliver it sooner. Or maybe your project gets delayed and you need to make up time. Let's look at a few techniques for shortening the project schedule. Fast tracking means you overlap tasks that normally occur one after the other. Let's say you want to finish design more quickly. You can have some folks start designing software features before the system design is complete. Fast tracking is simple. You just add an overlap to two tasks with finish to start dependencies. The best tasks to fast track are the longest tasks on the critical path. Remember, you shorten the whole project when you shorten the critical path. Fast Tracking the longest tasks on the critical path shortens the schedule and also introduces the fewest number of risks and changes which brings us to the disadvantage of fast tracking. It increases risk. For example, changes to the…

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