posted 2¼years ago by Natalie2000
© Copyright: Project Management Professional (PMP) Study Guide by Kim Heldman, Sybex Inc., Alameda, CA, USA, 2002, page 282, question 14
Crashing | Critical Path | Fast Tracking | Resource Leveling
You are the project manager for Rivera Gourmet Adventure Vacations. Rivera combines the wonderful tastes of great gourmet food with outdoor adventure activities. Your project involves installing a new human resources software system. Jason, the database analyst working on this project, is over allocated. Which of the following is true?
A. You should use resource requirements updates to determine availability and smooth out resource over allocation.
B. You should use crashing to resource level the critical path tasks.
C. You should use resource leveling heuristics to smooth out resource assignments.
D. You should use fast tracking to resource level the critical path tasks.
george (17½months ago):
I think that the right choice is C.
Option A is not suitable since resource requirements are already known. We know that Jason is over-allocated. No need to update this information again.
Crashing in option B won't help since there is only one resource - Jason. We can't "crash" him any more :)
Option D is not an option again because the Jason is the only resource we have.
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