In order to reduce the duration of a project, organisations often assign additional resources to the project task. This technique of assigning additional resources to reduce the project duration is termed as crashing. According to BusinessDictionary.com, schedule crashing is "Reducing the completion time of a project by sharply increasing manpower and/or other
expenses." It should be noted that though schedule crashing helps in reducing the duration of the project, it involves certain risks. For example, factors such as dependency of project tasks, increased costs, safety risks, etc. are some of the factors that may make schedule crashing impractical.