ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates various strategies that the project manager has to embrace in customizing the initial plan to fit these various constraints or views while keeping the core structure somewhat intact. All of scope-related work units are represented in the WBS hierarchy and then in the project plan as part of the defined work units. Understanding the significance of resource capacity management is an important aspect of the project manager’s role. The process of reducing task time by crashing means adding more resources to a critical path task to finish the task quicker. Maintaining a match of actual resources per the plan is a major success factor for the project. In most cases, the original plan should have been constructed with an optimal technical sequence, so fast tracking can create challenging operational issues that may not produce the desired results. Project plan schedule and budget variances occur in essentially all projects.
