Jane is worried about her project because too many of her tasks are moving slowly, and two critical tasks may slip. She conducts a thorough resource analysis and finds out that there will be five people who will be free next week. She would like to assign those people to finish her tasks early and prevent the project completion date from slipping. This is an example of ...?

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Alivia Soto

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6 February, 06:16

Jane is worried about her project because too many of her tasks are moving slowly, and two critical tasks may slip. She conducts a thorough resource analysis and finds out that there will be five people who will be free next week. She would like to assign those people to finish her tasks early and prevent the project completion date from slipping. This is an example of ...?

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Angelique Payne · Answer 1

Crashing

Explanation:

Crashing refers to a technique for compression or shortening of a schedule under project management. This technique is usually resorted to by the project manager, when fast tracking has failed to yield the desired results i. e accomplishment of tasks on time.

The project manager may apply crashing by adding up additional resources available at his disposal to the critical tasks at hand. Another way of applying crashing being to reduce the scope of the project under consideration or it's requirements.

In the given case, owing to the slow pace of task operations, Jane desires to add further resources to the critical tasks, in the form of additional men so as to shorten the project schedule and meet the deadline. This is an example of crashing technique of project management.