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Asked: 2026-05-12T10:39:03+00:00

I posted this question on Reddit Programming and did not get a single response.

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I posted this question on Reddit Programming and did not get a single response. So I am hoping that Stack Overflow community will have an opinion.

Have any of you ever been on a software project that had fallen behind, where ‘Crashing’ or ‘Fast-Tracking’ the project schedule actually brought the project schedule back on track? I have never seen either of these project management techniques actually work. And all the articles on software development that I have read all state that these 2 techniques do not work and actually pushing the project further behind (for example literature on the Mythical Man Month). So who has seen it work?

Thanks Bill.

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    I have only ever seen it work once. It was a three or four month long project that was projected to run an extra two months over the original delivery date. The project got fast-tracked and things ended up getting back on track for the release.

    …keep in mind though, that was only once. I’ve been on many more projects where the PM tried to use one of those two methods and they failed miserably and dragged the project out for months beyond already extended date.

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