• Moving an activity upstream in a process, in defiance of its predecessors (artificial overlapping)...

  • Increases the risk of rework (adds feedback marks in the DSM)

  • But, can let workers “get their feet wet,” which may be worth the time savings in cases of:

    • Substantial set-up times

    • Significant improvement (learning) curves (IC)

    • Low sensitivity to input changes (low rework impact)

    • Low second-order rework generation

    • No resource constraints

• Tradeoff: time (duration on the critical path) for cost

• Situations must be evaluated at the project level in terms of the overall network.

Key Publication: P8