Your organization has a project that is expected to last 20 months but the customer would really like the project completed in 18 months. You have worked on similar projects in the past and believe th

The correct answer is D. Risks. Fast tracking is a schedule compression technique where activities that are normally performed sequentially are instead performed in parallel or with overlapping timelines. While this can shorten the project schedule, it significantly increases risk because activities that were d

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Your organization has a project that is expected to last 20 months but the customer would really like the project completed in 18 months. You have worked on similar projects in the past and believe that you could fast track the project and reach the 18 month deadline. What increases when you fast track a project?

Options

AResources
BCosts
CCommunication
DRisks

How the community answered

(42 responses)

A
5% (2)
B
2% (1)
C
7% (3)
D
86% (36)

Explanation

Fast tracking is a schedule compression technique where activities that are normally performed sequentially are instead performed in parallel or with overlapping timelines. While this can shorten the project schedule, it significantly increases risk because activities that were designed to follow one another (with outputs of one feeding inputs of the next) are now happening simultaneously, increasing the chance of rework, conflicts, and errors. Resources (A) and costs (B) are more associated with crashing. Communication complexity (C) does increase somewhat, but it is not the primary and most direct consequence of fast tracking - risk is.

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