TO DO CRASHING FROM PROJECT

[student]

Hi,

Do you know if there is any software to do crashing
getting the information from MS project?. This is the
method where you reduce the days to your project
(increasing resources, decreasing the quality, etc).

Regards,

Arth

 

[JackD]

You can do all that with project. No other software required.

-Jack

 

[Student]

Could you tell me how?, where I can introduce the slope,
maximum time crash, and cost to do the crash?. As you know
it has to be done for each activity and is necessary to
get a report for each day that you reduce in order to
decide what to do.

Thanks

 

[JackD]

The answer lies in resource allocation.
You are the student. I presume it is your assignment to figure this out.

-Jack

 

[Steve House]

Crashing the schedule is by its nature a manual process. Only you the human
know whether a resource is available for more than you've used him so far,
whether additional resources could be obtained, what durations could be
shortened, what compromises in quality are acceptable, what tasks are
creating "nice to have but not essential" deliverables, what tasks could be
run in parallel or have lead times introduced to overlap sequential tasks,
etc.

 

[Mark Durrenberger]

Start with the critical path(s). Do what you can to shorten it. Then when
the new critical path(s) emerge, shorten them and so on and so on...

Look at your plan and figure out what can be done in parallel but be aware
of the risks as you "parallelize" work

"We can start coding even though the design is not done however we risk
rework once the design is finished" are you willing to take that risk? What
is the risk/reward trade-off? (is the risk worth the reward?)

Best of luck...

Mark


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Mark Durrenberger, PMP
Principal, Oak Associates, Inc, www.oakinc.com
"Advancing the Theory and Practice of Project Management"
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The nicest thing about NOT planning is that failure
comes as a complete surprise and is not preceded by
a period of worry and depression.

- Sir John Harvey-Jones