You are the project manager working on a research project for a new drug treatment. Your preliminary project schedule runs past the due date for a federal grant application. You adjust the schedule and find that two activities previously scheduled to start sequentially can be started at the same time. This is an example of:
A. Crashing
B. Fast tracking
C. Resource leveling
D. Adjusting the resource calendar


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