Crash Time Made Clearer

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Abstract
Project crash time is a method for shortening project duration by reducing the time of one or more critical project activities. There is some complexity in teaching crash time in project management, as well as in learning crash time for a student who is newly learning project management. Crashing project time is a difficult concept in itself. However, it is easier when only one or two units of time must be reduced. Although when it is necessary to reduce by more than two units, and, in addition, more than one critical path appears, the process becomes much more difficult to teach or learn, as well as much more visually complicated. This paper focuses on a proposal to alleviate the problem through a step-by-step, graphic approach using Microsoft Excel by adding layers to each step in the process, while utilizing a simple template, instead of manually adjusting the times that are being reduced, thus eliminating confusion throughout the entire process.

Introduction
The professor faces a challenge in teaching the traditional methodology of crash time in a project. Once the professor begins to explain the methods, the students typically start to become uncomfortable when they see the many steps needed throughout the process for each unit of time that is to be reduced. The fact is that updating the forward counting, as well as the backward counting, in the entire path …

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