In order to avoid project delays, project managers confronted with a resource overload will seek to delay some of the noncritical activities by an amount no more than their slack period, to level the demand for that worker. a. True b. False

a. True

Project managers often use various techniques to manage and schedule resources effectively, thereby avoiding project delays. One such technique is resource leveling, which involves adjusting the start and finish dates of noncritical activities to even out the demand on resources, often by utilizing the slack or float time available. Slack or float is the amount of time a task can be delayed without causing a delay in the project's completion date or in the start of a subsequent task.

When a project faces resource overload—meaning there are more tasks than resources available to work on them at a given time—the project manager might delay some noncritical tasks. Noncritical tasks are those that do not lie on the critical path (the sequence of tasks that determines the shortest possible duration for the project). These noncritical activities can have some delay without affecting the project’s overall completion time because they have slack.

By delaying these tasks within the limits of their slack period, the project manager aims to distribute the workload more evenly across the available timeline, preventing overallocation of resources and helping ensure that all tasks receive adequate attention without causing project delays.