...to project activities can be done in various ways. Think of an activity that can be done by a team of 6 people (long duration, low cost) or by a team of 3 persons and an expensive machine (short duration, high renting cost of the machine).
In the academic literature, this challenging problem is called the multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling problem, as follows:
Friday, February 1, 2013, a small group of Engineering students from University College of London have controlled an electronic development project based on the Project Scheduling Game. Last week, they followed only one session on network analysis and critical path scheduling techniques, and hence, they had to run the PSG simulation with a limited knowledge and experience. However, a clever project control approach and a detailed analysis helped them towards finding good strategies.
What have immune systems and ProTrack in common? A lot!
As you might know, most algorithms of ProTrack are based on sound academic research developed by PhD students. One of these algorithms are so-called artificial immune systems that are used to optimize complex problems.
Combining Operations Research and personnel scheduling: It can be done!
Although we mostly talk about Project Management and Scheduling in the OR-AS blog, we would like to draw your attention on the OR in OR-AS. Operations Research is a methodology that can be used everywhere, from supply chain management to warehousing, from project management to ... indeed ... personnel management.
Published in the Measurable News - Available at PMKC.
The Measurable News, issue 4 of 2012 has just appeared and one of the American attendees, Mark Phillips, has written an article about the EVM Europe 2012 event held in Twente (The Netherlands) on 28-29 November 2012.
ProTrack 3.0 is a complete redesigned version of the smart version of ProTrack 2.0. Its integration with PM Knowledge Center and its strong focus on the integration of baseline scheduling, risk analysis and project control makes it yet a stronger learning tool to stimulate interaction between researchers, students and practitioners in the field of project management and dynamic scheduling.
A new EDU page has been added on the ProTrack website that collects all endeavors made by students to help us making ProTrack even better. This page is added after the introduction of ProTrack's Facebook group announced yesterday.
