550 CIS / Chapter 9
Chapter 9 Review Questions
9-R1 What are five common reasons for crashing a project?
Five common reasons for crashing a project include:
Reducing time to market in order to gain a competitive advantage
Unforeseen delays that cause substantial delays midway through the project
Incentive contracts that reward reduced project time
Imposed deadlines
Very high overhead costs
9-R2 What are the advantages and disadvantages of reducing project scope to accelerate a
project? What be can done to reduce the disadvantages?
Advantages to reducing project scope to accelerate a project are that time and cost may be reduced.
Disadvantages include the fact that functionality is lost and the value of the project reduced. These
disadvantages can be minimized by an intense re-examination of requirements with stakeholders to
determine which features are essential. This may actually improve the value of the project by getting it
done more quickly and for a lower cost (p. 288).