Question

Question: The project’s progress has fallen behind schedule on the critical path. The project manager has decided to recover the schedule by crashing the project’s schedule. What is the expected consequence of this project’s triple constraints?

Answer 1

Time, scope and cost are three constraints of the project which need to be balanced to ensure that the project is completed to the best satisfaction of the customers while keeping within all three constraints as much as possible.

Effect of crashing on the project will be as follows.

(i) Scope- The scope is related to the deliverables and quality of the project. The decision of crashing should not impact the scope of project, because doing this will affect the deliverable quality, which is not recommended, because it will affect customer satisfaction.

(ii) Time - The time needs to be shortened because the project needs to be completed as per schedule and currently is behind schedule.

(iii) Cost- The cost is going to increase because in order to complete the remaining work in shorter time, more resources will have to be deployed, which will increase the cost.