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Managing Fast Tracked and Compressed Project Schedules

Sooner or later a sponsor demands the same scope in far less time, and the project manager has to compress the schedule without wrecking quality or budget. This course covers the techniques of fast tracking and crashing, and the risks each one creates. Examples reflect African projects under pressure from funding windows, political deadlines and seasonal constraints.

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What you will be able to do

  • Analyse a schedule to find where genuine compression is possible.
  • Apply fast tracking by overlapping activities that normally run in sequence.
  • Use crashing to shorten duration by adding resources where it pays off.
  • Weigh the cost, quality and risk trade offs of each compression choice.
  • Manage the added coordination and rework risk of compressed schedules.
  • Communicate compressed plans honestly to sponsors and teams.

Course outline

  1. 01Why schedules get compressed
  2. 02Analysing the schedule for compression
  3. 03Fast tracking with overlapping work
  4. 04Crashing with added resources
  5. 05Cost, quality and risk trade offs
  6. 06Managing rework and coordination risk
  7. 07Communicating compressed plans
  8. 08Recovering when compression fails

Who should attend

Project managers, planners, schedulers and team leads who face pressure to deliver faster and need practical, defensible ways to compress project schedules.

Dates, venues and fees

DatesVenueDaysFeeCalendarRegister
6 to 7 Oct 2026Johannesburg2R10,000Register
7 to 8 Oct 2026Cape Town2R10,000Register
8 to 9 Oct 2026Durban2R10,000Register
12 to 13 Oct 2026Pretoria2R10,000Register
13 to 14 Oct 2026Windhoek2US$1,100Register
14 to 15 Oct 2026Gaborone2US$1,100Register
15 to 16 Oct 2026Maseru2US$1,100Register
19 to 20 Oct 2026Mbabane2US$1,100Register
20 to 21 Oct 2026Lusaka2US$1,100Register
21 to 22 Oct 2026Harare2US$1,100Register
22 to 23 Oct 2026Lilongwe2US$1,100Register
26 to 27 Oct 2026Blantyre2US$1,100Register
27 to 28 Oct 2026Mozambique2US$1,100Register
28 to 29 Oct 2026Nairobi2US$1,100Register
29 to 30 Oct 2026Dar es Salaam2US$1,100Register
2 to 3 Nov 2026Kigali2US$1,100Register
3 to 4 Nov 2026Kampala2US$1,100Register
4 to 5 Nov 2026Accra2US$1,100Register
5 to 6 Nov 2026Lagos2US$1,100Register
9 to 10 Nov 2026Cairo2US$1,100Register
10 to 11 Nov 2026Mauritius2US$1,100Register
11 to 12 Nov 2026Dubai2US$1,100Register
12 to 13 Nov 2026Online2US$900Register

Fees are per delegate. South African venues are priced in rand; other locations and online in US dollars. Fees exclude 15% VAT where applicable. Group bookings of three or more delegates from the same organisation qualify for a reduced rate; contact us for a quotation.

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Next session
19 to 21 Oct 2026
Venue
Johannesburg
3 day programme
FromR13,000
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