You have recently been awarded a grant to conduct a research project. The grant payments are tied to milestones which have a strict schedule. In order to deliver this project, you need to recruit multiple resources at various stages of the project on short-term contracts. Due to cost limitations you cannot hire these resources any earlier or longer than necessary. There is a risk that if the required resources are not available on time, the milestones will slip target dates and the project will risk losing the funding. What should you do? Analyze the variability of the hiring process and recruit the resources just in time. Add lead time to individual hiring activities. Crash the project schedule and compress activity durations. Fast-track the project schedule and perform multiple activities in parallel