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The different types of activities are relevant to scheduling and forms of changing and crashing (accelerating) a schedule:

=Resource-dependent activities= 
*Duration can be changed.
*The duration of the activity can be halved if the resources are doubled (experienced employees).
*Examples: programming, digging drawing work
*Speed up: add more people

=Process-dependent activities=

*Activities where the duration is determined by a process that must be implemented to achieve the desired result
*Characterized by that it can't be rushed
*Examples: pregnancy, curing of concrete, training and education of employees
*Speed up example: Difficult, in some cases through e.g. change of equipment

=Procedure-dependent activities=

*Activities where a certain procedure must be followed
*The uncertainty related to the outcome of the procedure.
*Examples: steering committee meetings, consultation of stakeholders
*Speed up example: Ebola and the change on regulation

=Problem-dependent activities=

*Activities to solve a problem.
*Innovation is paramount. Can be difficult to estimate the duration
*Examples: design tasks, development, creative tasks
*Speed up example: difficult, through intermediary deadlines or forcing an end - 'time boxing'