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Fast-track to shorten a schedule

Fast-track to shorten a schedule - Microsoft Project Tutorial

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Fast-track to shorten a schedule

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- Remember those activities you link together, so one starts after the previous one finishes? Once a project is underway, you can shorten the schedule by bending the rules a little for those dependencies. It's called fast-tracking, because you're pushing activities to occur faster than they normally would. The concept behind fast-tracking is simple. Overlap activities that normally would run in sequence, so the second one starts before the first one is finished. When you do this, though, you have to watch the predecessor for delays. If its finish day delays, you'll have to delay the second activity too. Because the goal is shortening the project schedule, candidates for fast-tracking are activities on the critical path. That's because shortening the critical path shortens the entire schedule. In this example, suppose the production editor doesn't start working on layout until the manuscript is done. To shorten the…

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