5. Consider crashing or overlapping critical tasks

• If the critical path is too long you may decide to overlap tasks – this is usually more risky, but quicker.
• Your other choice is to crash a task – which means throw money (or people) at it in order to do it more quickly. This usually means it will be more expensive in the end, and possibly of a lower quality too.
• If you crash a critical task there is a risk that something else in parallel with it will become critical as well.
• The best tasks to crash are those which are a) critical, b) long and c) not in parallel with others.