Exam 9: Resource Allocation

__________ describes the amounts of individual resources an existing schedule requires during specific time periods.

If the appropriate scheduling equation for task A of a project were W = D * U, and it was initialized so that W = 40d, D = 10d, and U = 4 resources, and task A is an effort-driven activity, correctly balance this equation if the value for U is changed from 4 to 5. To balance the equation, the altered variable and its new value are __________.

One cannot save __________, rather one can only spend more or less of it.

One of the problems that Goldratt observed was that if an activity has slack time, often times the start of the task is delayed until the slack is removed. This is referred to as __________.

The two principles to follow when crashing a project are __________.

__________ refers to the amount of time past a project's due or delivery date.