Techniques used to shorten the overall project timeline without cutting any scope of work.
Schedule compression is a broad category of scheduling techniques used to reduce the total project duration without reducing the project scope. The two primary methods are crashing (adding resources to shorten critical path activity durations) and fast-tracking (overlapping activities that were originally planned in sequence). Both methods involve trade-offs in cost, risk, and quality.
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