The assignment discusses a project with a normal schedule duration and cost. The project direct cost is $35,000, but an additional $11,000 is required to complete the project within its normal timeframe, resulting in a total cost of $134,000. However, by crashing the tasks to their minimum, the duration can be reduced to 14 weeks at a cost of $77,000. The shortest possible crashed duration is 14 days, but this comes with a trade-off of an additional $20,000. Therefore, there may be an incentive to accept the reduction in project timeframe.