This document describes the process of time-cost tradeoff analysis to minimize the total cost of a project. It involves shortening the duration of critical project activities by paying extra money according to each activity's crash rate or slope. The process begins with creating an activity-on-node network using normal activity durations. It then iteratively selects the cheapest critical activity to crash based on crash rates, updates the network, and identifies the next critical path to determine if further crashing is needed to shorten the project duration. The objective is to determine the combination of critical activities to crash that results in the minimum total project cost.
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