Question: During planning, your team has identified the items in the following table as work to be done on the project. All relationships re F-S relationships

During planning, your team has identified the items in the following table as work to be done on the project. All relationships re F-S relationships and duration are in weeks.

Task Duration Predecessor
A 1 Start
B 2 A
C 4 B
D 2 B
E 3 B
F 4 D,C
G 1 E
H 3 F
I 5 G
J 2 H,I

Now that all the previous changes have occurred (Task D changes to 3 weeks) and task G changes to 4 weeks), management asks you to cut the project duration by 2 weeks. Which of the following are viable options to do this?

Question 8 options:

a)

Add additional resources to task H taken from task D, reducing the expected duration of H by 2 weeks and increasing the duration of task D by 1 week.

b)

Reduce scope, thereby reducing task F by 2 weeks

c)

Fast track tasks B and C, so they can be started together and worked in parallel.

d)

Add additional resources to tasks I and C from outside the project, reducing the expected duration of both by 2 weeks.

PLEASE APAP PLEASE

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