Schedule Compression: What's the Difference between Fast Tracking and Crashing?

Most Project Managers use the terms ‘Fast-tracking’ and ‘Crashing the Schedule’ interchangeably. And that’s fine. But, strictly, they are different.

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Crashing a Project – or Crashing a Timeline – is the use of additional resources to get things done more quickly.

Fast-tracking is the practice of doing work in parallel, that you would normally do sequentially.

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⏱ Chapter Markers...
00:00 - Fast-tracking and crashing the schedule
00:19 - Two schedule compression techniques
01:14 - Crashing
01:42 - Fast-tracking
03:01 - Summary: Comparing Fast-tracking with Crashing


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