HU Fast Tracking Project Management Worksheet

Question 1

1. Go online and find at least two sites with definitions of fast tracking and crashing a project schedule.

1. Prepare proper reference citations for the sites you located, using APA style.
2. In your own words, write definitions for project fast tracking and project crashing.
3. Consider
   the plan you prepared for the software system testing project in
   question 1 above. If you were informed by management that you must
   reduce the planned duration of the project by five days, describe how
   you, as a project manager, could crash or fast track this project. Be
   specific in identifying exactly what could be changed in the project
   plan for each option.
4. (continuation
   of question 2.3) If the request to speed up the project occurs after
   day 25 of the original schedule, what is the only option available?

Question 2

2. Go online and research the difference between total slack and free slack.

1. Prepare proper reference citations for the sites you located, using APA style.
2. Write definitions of total slack and free slack in your own words.
3. Why would the distinction between different forms of slack be important to a project manager?

Question 3

A
project to put on a major international sporting competition has the
following major deliverables: Sports Venues, Athlete Accommodation,
Volunteer Organization, Security, Events, and Publicity (which has
already been broken down into pre-event publicity and post-event
publicity.) Prepare a WBS for any single major deliverable on the list.
Remember the 100 percent rule, and number your objectives.