Exam 9: Reducing Project Duration

The president of a software company remarks in a speech that new technologically advanced software will be available in one year.This is an example of reducing project duration caused by:

Identify options for accelerating a project schedule when resources are not constrained.

Which of the following is the most common method for shortening project time?

The easiest way to add more resources to a project is not to add more people, but to schedule ________.

Sometimes very high ________ costs are recognized before a project begins and reducing these costs through shorter project durations becomes a high priority.

When the project team is salaried, which of the following is the preferred choice for accelerating project completion?

The Snapshot from Practice which detailed the Northridge earthquake demonstrated the importance of reducing a project's ______.

What is Critical-chain (C-C) project management and why can it be of benefit to project managers?

The most common method for shortening project time is to

The project direct-cost line near the normal point is usually:

Crash cost is the incremental cost incurred when an activity is reduced in duration.

When a politician makes a public statement that a new building will be available in two years, a(n) ________ duration has reduced the project duration.

Which of the following is not considered a project indirect cost?

Crash time is the greatest time reduction possible under realistic conditions.

The direct costs for completing an activity as early as possible is called its ________.

What is crashing and include a discussion of crash time and crash cost?

One way of reducing project costs is identifying tasks that _________ can do themselves.

____ costs are incurred when completing an activity in its realistically shortest time.

The shortest possible time an activity can be completed realistically is called ___ time.

Why is the project duration with the lowest direct costs seldom the optimum duration for a project?