You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. There has been a delay in your project work that is adversely affecting the project schedule. You decided, with your stakeholders' approval, to fast…

The correct answer is D. Risks. Fast tracking is a schedule compression technique where activities that would normally be done sequentially are performed in parallel or overlap. While this can recover schedule time, it inherently increases risk because activities that depended on the output of a previous task…

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Question

You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. There has been a delay in your project work that is adversely affecting the project schedule. You decided, with your stakeholders' approval, to fast track the project work to get the project done faster. When you fast track the project which of the following are likely to increase?

Options

ACosts
BQuality control concerns
CHuman resource needs
DRisks

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A
4% (2)
B
2% (1)
C
2% (1)
D
93% (53)

Explanation

Fast tracking is a schedule compression technique where activities that would normally be done sequentially are performed in parallel or overlap. While this can recover schedule time, it inherently increases risk because activities that depended on the output of a previous task are now being executed concurrently - meaning errors or rework in one task can cascade to tasks already in progress. Costs (A) are more directly associated with crashing (adding resources), not fast tracking. Quality control concerns (B) and human resource needs (C) may be situationally affected but are not the primary, most predictable outcome of fast tracking. Risk is the most reliably increased factor when fast tracking.

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