Project Crashing Using Cpm
Scamoail Ahmed - Project Mgmt assignment no 2
Q No 1 : What is meant by Project Crashing? How you incorporate Project Crashing through PERT-CPM?
Definition
1. Project Crashing is a technique / process by which a project can be expedited by compressing the project schedule.
Explanation
2. When we say that a project completion time is XX days, we generally mean that the project will normally takes these number of days within a specified resource / budget constraint. We could make it take less time , but to do so we will have to increase our budget or resources or a combination of both.
3. We can however reallocate resources from one facet of the project and use it to speed up an activity that is lagging behind OR we can all together allocate new resources to our ACTIVITIES IN CRITICAL PATH. However care must be taken that, if the resources should always be withdrawn from activities that have more SLACK . In Short for project crashing we have to concentrate our efforts on THE CRIRICAL PATH i.e whatever efforts we have to do in term of time , resources or budget will be done on the critical path and these things have to be taken out either from the non-critical activities having enough SLACK or new allocation should be made.
4. While carrying out project crashing utmost care must be taken that appropriate activities are being crashed and that diverted resources are not causing needless risk and PROJECT SCOPE INTEGRITY
Example (Using PERT / CPM)
Example narrative
5. An aircraft gets damage as a result of ground accident, the damage was analyzed by the maintenance crew and timelines for the repair were analyzed using CPM which came out to be 6 days (8 hrs/ day), however the stake holder needed the repair to be completed in 3 days as the aircraft was needed for a VIP mission. Efforts were made to meet the timelines by working overtime, however still the timelines could not be met. Project crashing was carried out keeping in view the fact that PROJECT
Q No 1 : What is meant by Project Crashing? How you incorporate Project Crashing through PERT-CPM?
Definition
1. Project Crashing is a technique / process by which a project can be expedited by compressing the project schedule.
Explanation
2. When we say that a project completion time is XX days, we generally mean that the project will normally takes these number of days within a specified resource / budget constraint. We could make it take less time , but to do so we will have to increase our budget or resources or a combination of both.
3. We can however reallocate resources from one facet of the project and use it to speed up an activity that is lagging behind OR we can all together allocate new resources to our ACTIVITIES IN CRITICAL PATH. However care must be taken that, if the resources should always be withdrawn from activities that have more SLACK . In Short for project crashing we have to concentrate our efforts on THE CRIRICAL PATH i.e whatever efforts we have to do in term of time , resources or budget will be done on the critical path and these things have to be taken out either from the non-critical activities having enough SLACK or new allocation should be made.
4. While carrying out project crashing utmost care must be taken that appropriate activities are being crashed and that diverted resources are not causing needless risk and PROJECT SCOPE INTEGRITY
Example (Using PERT / CPM)
Example narrative
5. An aircraft gets damage as a result of ground accident, the damage was analyzed by the maintenance crew and timelines for the repair were analyzed using CPM which came out to be 6 days (8 hrs/ day), however the stake holder needed the repair to be completed in 3 days as the aircraft was needed for a VIP mission. Efforts were made to meet the timelines by working overtime, however still the timelines could not be met. Project crashing was carried out keeping in view the fact that PROJECT