Crashing of Project Network

What is crashing of project network?

Crashing of project network refers to the particular variety of project compression through which the time spent for one project is reduced. This is done to bring out the maximum potential of the project, as the most productive nature is brought to light at the toughest of times. When the time and the expenses for the project are reduced, the pressure is put on a lot to produced good quality output. The pressure brings out the attributes that help in designing top quality products.

Crashing is something that can be used to make the maximum utilization of the value for the project. So that you can get the best of the project here are some tips that will guide you along:

• Determine the duration of each and every activity involved.
• Determine the critical and non critical nature of the activities involved
• When there is more than one activity involved, crash the one activity than involves the least amount of money.
• Based on the effect that is on the one activity you can decide on the compression of the other activities involved in the project.
• Then you can revise your decisions based on the effect of the crash on the other activities.
• After the revision of the decisions critical path of action is determined. This critical path of action sees to that you get the desired quality output at the time you require.

And if needed further crashing of the project can be done, by following these above mentioned steps. But remember that, the technique that gives positive results in one situation will not give the same expected results in other situation. So to get a good and positive outcome it is necessary that you take the situation also into consideration, before making any decision.

There are two types of classification for crashing of project network:

• Crashing the project network until the time there is no more way to crash the project network
• Crashing the project network until it becomes uneconomical to crash anymore

Questions:

• What are the risks involved in crashing of project network?
• What are the benefits of crashing of project network?