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You are the project manager for Rivera Gourmet Adventure Vacations. Rivera combines the wonderful tastes of great gourmet food with outdoor adventure activities. Your project involves installing a new human resources software system. Jason, the database analyst working on this project, is over allocated. Which of the following is true?
A. You should use resource requirements updates to determine availability and smooth out resource over allocation.
B. You should use crashing to resource level the critical path tasks.
C. You should use resource leveling heuristics to smooth out resource assignments.
D. You should use fast tracking to resource level the critical path tasks.
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