Question 64
Crashing describes a technique to speed up a project by…
A. …reallocating existing resources or assigning additional resources to the project.
B. …overlapping activities which were originally planned to be done in sequence.
C. …reducing the number of features of the product in order to reduce development work.
D. …reducing the duration estimates for activities to increase the pressure applied to the staff.
Oliver 175 - 64th Question
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Oliver 175 - 64th Question
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Re: Oliver 175 - 64th Question
A reallocation of existing resources
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Re: Oliver 175 - 64th Question
Yes Sarthy the correct answer is option A.
Crashing : A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources
Crashing is not done blindly by adding resources. First the additional cost and benefits with crashing are evaluated and then only this is taken forward. Cost and schedule trade-offs are analysed to explore least additional cost and maximum compression
Refer to page 535 of PMBOK® Guide 5th Edition
You can refer to the following link for more insight of this topic
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http://www.izenbridge.com/videogallery/ ... zenbridge/
Blog
http://www.izenbridge.com/blog/what-is- ... -crashing/
Crashing : A technique used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental cost by adding resources
Crashing is not done blindly by adding resources. First the additional cost and benefits with crashing are evaluated and then only this is taken forward. Cost and schedule trade-offs are analysed to explore least additional cost and maximum compression
Refer to page 535 of PMBOK® Guide 5th Edition
Crashing is a compression technique that looks at cost and schedule trade-offs. One of the things you might do to crash the schedule is add resources, from either inside or outside the organization, to the critical path tasks.
You can refer to the following link for more insight of this topic
Video
http://www.izenbridge.com/videogallery/ ... zenbridge/
Blog
http://www.izenbridge.com/blog/what-is- ... -crashing/
Jyoti Gupta
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