Schedule Compression: What's the Difference between Fast Tracking and Crashing?

Most Project Managers use the terms ‘Fast-tracking’ and ‘Crashing the Schedule’ interchangeably. And that’s fine. But, strictly, they are different. 🎓 Learn Project Management with Mike: The Project Manager's Skills Mastery Program https://school.onlinepmcourses.com/p/pm-skills-mastery Crashing a Project – or Crashing a Timeline – is the use of additional resources to get things done more quickly. Fast-tracking is the practice of doing work in parallel, that you would normally do sequentially. Recommended Videos Carefully curated video recommendations for you: 🎬 How to Create a Project Schedule - 21 Steps in 5 Stages https://youtu.be/e8SMojtawLs 🎬 What is Resource Levelling? And how does it differ from Resource Smoothing? https://youtu.be/IvN6kyMUe3Q 🎬 How to Deduce Project Resource Requirements https://youtu.be/kYuUtSyeuJM 🎒 A while back, I asked Project Managers in a couple of forums what material things you need to have, to do your job as a Project Manager. They responded magnificently. I compiled their answers into a Kit list. https://kit.co/MikeClayton/what-a-project-manager-needs Note that the links are affiliated. 🎬 For more great Project Management videos, please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMZfp1_wquyegVY9SoER0Nw?sub_confirmation=1 🎁 For all our great Project Management articles and resources, please check out the OnlinePMCourses website: https://onlinepmcourses.com/ 🏛 For basic Management Courses - free training hosted on YouTube, with 2 new management lessons a week, check out our sister channel, Management Courses: http://youtube.com/c/managementcourses 🎓 For more of our Project Management videos in themed collections, join our Free Academy of Project Management: https://onlinepmcourses.com/free-academy-of-project-management/ ⏱ Chapter Markers... 00:00 - Fast-tracking and crashing the schedule 00:19 - Two schedule compression techniques 01:14 - Crashing 01:42 - Fast-tracking 03:01 - Summary: Comparing Fast-tracking with Crashing #ScheduleCompression #ProjectManagement #FastTracking