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Explain the risks associated with leveling resources, compressing or crashing projects, and imposed durations or "catch-up" as the project is being implemented.

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Explain the risks associated with leveling resources, compressing or crashing projects, and imposed durations or "catch-up" as the project is being implemented.

Leveling resources means that in situations where the demand varies widely over the life of the project, it may be desirable to even out resource demand by delaying non-critical activities using slack to lower peak demand and so increasing resource utilization. Delaying non-critical activities may lead to a situation where the delayed activities affect the critical path ...

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