Book review

A book review of the book "Project Management using Dynamic Scheduling: Baseline Scheduling, Risk Analysis & Project Control" has been published in the second edition of the Measurable News, including references to Measuring Time, ProTrack, PSG and much more.

ProTrack goes mobile: Proof of concept by students at Ghent University

Last Tuesday, May 7, the students have presented their work for the course "Project Management" and have shown how ProTrack could be integrated in a Mobile App. They have posted two movies on YouTube to illustrate what they have done: 

Research - Teaching - Practice

At universities, research is the driver for innovation and its use in teaching activities is crucial to stimulate critical thinking.

At OR-AS, research is the starting point for our software developments to tighten the bridge between the research and the practical applications.

At EVM Europe, research meets practice by bringing students, academics and professionals together.

The Mutum Paraná II bridge, Case B

On Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 116 students had to solve the Mutum Paraná II bridge case study (part B) as part of the course “Project Management” at the faculty of Engineering of Ghent University. The aim was to analyse project data and to present the results to the project team of the company in a written report. Below you find some key metrics of their analyses:

Evolutionary computing in personnel rostering on the 13^th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Vienna, Austria)

Handbook of Heuristics: Theory and Applications

In the new handbook published by Nova Publishers, the article "An Empirical Investigation of Different Solution Strategies for Meta-Heuristic Optimization: Solution Representation, Diversity and Space Reduction" written at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (Ghent University) has finally been published. Below you find information about the book and a link to the website of the publisher.

Editor: Patrick Siarry (Université de Paris, Creteil, France)

Universiteit Gent, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde zoekt

GEDREVEN ONDERZOEKERS/DOCTORANDI (m/v)

In het domein van

Projectmanagement en Operationeel Onderzoek

Te starten tussen 01/09/2013 en 01/10/2013

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The Art of Project Management: A Story about Work and Passion

Dynamic Scheduling

Integrating baseline scheduling, schedule risk analysis and project control

As promised, the third and last "dynamic Scheduling" folder is now available, as mentioned in the previous blog entry.

Within a few days, these folders will appear in the upcoming new book "The Art of Project Management: A Story about Work and Passion".

Five observations on the two-days training on dynamic Scheduling: Integrated Project Controls

March 5-6, 2013
Vilnius, Lithuania