Exam 9: Reducing Project Duration

Reducing the duration of an activity is called ________.

An activity's normal time and cost are 8 and $100,respectively.Its estimated crash time and cost are 6 and $160,respectively.What is this activity's crash cost per time unit?

Intense global competition and rapid technological advances create pressure to develop projects rapidly.This is an example of reducing project duration caused by

Given an equal level of risk and the need to reduce overall project duration,why would you NOT select the activity with the least slope,in the entire project network,to crash first?

Overhead costs such as supervision,administration,consultants,and interest are examples of ________ project costs.

Brooks' law states that adding manpower to a software project helps keep it on schedule.

When you schedule ________,you avoid the additional costs of coordination and communication when new people are added.

Because direct costs are assumed to be developed from "normal" methods and in a "normal" amount of time,any reduction in activity time should add to the costs of the activity.

The higher the cost slope of an activity the lower the cost to reduce its duration.

The less steep the cost slope of an activity,the ________ it costs to shorten one time period.

In order to shorten the duration of a project the project manager should limit the choices of activities to just those which are on the __________.

Direct costs are so named because they can be assigned directly to a work package and activity.

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

The cost-time crashing method relies on choosing the cheapest method for reducing the duration of the project.What are other factors that should be assessed beyond simply cost?

Creation of the ___________ graph keeps the importance of indirect costs in the forefront of decision making.

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

It is going to cost $80,000 a day simply to house and feed a construction crew in the farthest reaches of northern Alaska.This would be an example of a situation requiring reducing the project duration due to

Total cost for specific project durations is computed and then compared with the benefits of reducing project time,before the project begins or while it is in progress.

Intense global competition and rapid technological advances combine to create a(n)________-imposed project duration date.

The ________ time for an activity represents low-costs,realistic,efficient methods for completing the activity under typical conditions.