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Pay more to shorten a schedule

Pay more to shorten a schedule - Microsoft Project Tutorial

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Pay more to shorten a schedule

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- [Instructor] If the project finish date is more important than the budget, spending money to shorten the schedule is an option. It's called crashing. The most common crashing technique is adding more resources to an activity. This approach is effective, up to a point. If you add too many resources, work starts to slow down as people get in each other's way. Other options for crashing include paying overtime, paying fees for expedited delivery, or paying more for people who can complete work quicker. Like any technique for shortening the schedule, the tasks you want to crash are on the critical path because they're the ones that directly determine the finish date of the project. Crashing can increase the risk for tasks. For instance, when you hire unfamiliar workers. That's why it's good to keep the number of crash tasks to a minimum. Crashing part of one long task might cut all the time you need out of the schedule.…

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