This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.

In this episode you will learn:

- Crashing adds resources to critical path activities and always increases project costs.

- Fast-tracking involves performing sequential activities in parallel, which always increases project risk.

- The choice between crashing and fast-tracking on the PMP exam is determined by project constraints, primarily budget and risk tolerance.

- A common exam trap is applying schedule compression to non-critical path activities, which fails to shorten the project timeline.

- Use the mnemonic "Crashing Costs Cash; Fast-tracking creates Future Fixes" to recall the key trade-off for each technique.

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