Your organization has named you the project manager of the JKN Project. This project has a BAC of $1,500,000 and it is expected to last 18 months. Management has agreed that if the schedule baseline…

The correct answer is A. Project costs will increase. Crashing is a schedule compression technique where additional resources (money, personnel, equipment) are added to critical path activities to shorten the project duration. Because you are adding resources - such as overtime pay, additional staff, or expedited delivery of…

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Your organization has named you the project manager of the JKN Project. This project has a BAC of $1,500,000 and it is expected to last 18 months. Management has agreed that if the schedule baseline has a variance of more than five percent then you will need to crash the project. What happens when the project manager crashes a project?

Options

AProject costs will increase.
BThe amount of hours a resource can be used will diminish.
CThe projectwill take longer to complete, but risks will diminish.
DProject risks will increase.

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A
84% (16)
B
5% (1)
D
11% (2)

Explanation

Crashing is a schedule compression technique where additional resources (money, personnel, equipment) are added to critical path activities to shorten the project duration. Because you are adding resources - such as overtime pay, additional staff, or expedited delivery of materials - project costs will increase. Crashing does not reduce risks (it may introduce new ones), does not make the project take longer, and does not diminish resource hours. The fundamental trade-off in crashing is: reduced schedule duration at the expense of increased cost.

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