Are you referring to ways to avoid having to crash a schedule by adding more staff to critical path activities?
If so, I'd suggest starting the project sooner or reducing scope or altering the proposed approach.
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VASUDEV NARAYANANProgram Manager| Pentapolis FoundationChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
To summarize:
1. Using historical data - internal/external- as a baseline
2. Understanding the tasks and dependencies and prioritizing the tasks
3. Being Stingy and cutting corners without affecting the big-picture - this means, unnecessary or unwanted tasks should not be encouraged. Saving Changes...