Holly is the project manager for her organization. Her current project is running late and her project
customer has asked Holly to find a method to apply corrective actions to the project schedule.
Holly is exploring the concept of crashing the project. Which of the following statements is true
about crashing the activities in Holly’s project?

A.
The activities to be crashed must have additional quality control metrics associated with them.

B.
The activities to be crashed cannot be of fixed duration.

C.
The activities to be crashed cannot have risks associated with them greater than 0.80.

D.
The activities cannot be on the critical path in order to be crashed.

Explanation:
Crashing adds effort to the project activities. Activities that are of fixed duration, for example
software testing, would not finish faster with added resources. Crashing is a schedule
compression technique to obtain the greatest amount of compression for the least incremental

cost. Crashing works for activities where additional resources will shorten the duration. Approving
overtime, bringing in additional resources, paying to expedite delivery to activities on the critical
path are examples of crashing.
Answer option D is incorrect. Activities on the critical path can be crashed.
Answer option C is incorrect. Activities with risks can be crashed.
Answer option A is incorrect. Additional quality control metrics are not necessary just because
Holly elects to crash her project.