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What are some techniques to speed up a project? Under what circumstances might they be implemented? Is hiring/adding more staff always a boost to timely project schedule completion?

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The solution discusses some techniques to speed up a project and the circumstances that they might be implemented. It also explains if hiring of additional staff will always boost a timely completion of project. References included.

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What are some techniques to speed up a project?

Shortening the project finish date is also known as 'crashing' a project. Some techniques that can be done are the following:

? Revise a task constraint so that flexibility in scheduling can be allowed.
? Consider removing or shortening some critical path tasks.
? Different resources can work simultaneously on smaller tasks so it is better to break down a big task.
? For some dependent tasks, set lead time between them.
? Overtime can ...

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