Project Tracking in action 

Study, experiment, understand.

ProTrack is a project management and tracking tool developed by OR-AS as part of award-winning research on dynamic scheduling and project control. Originally released as a commercial tool, ProTrack was designed as a simple and effective alternative to traditional project management software, grounded in both academic research and extensive practitioner feedback.

The core strength of ProTrack lies in its focus on dynamic scheduling, integrating baseline scheduling, risk analysis and project control into a single learning and experimentation environment. Its concepts are rooted in established best practices in scheduling and Earned Value Management, complemented by innovative ideas such as Earned Schedule.

Together with the last release of ProTrack, the PM Knowledge Center was developed to provide a rich environment for exploring project management and dynamic scheduling. While ProTrack is no longer commercially available, the PM Knowledge Center remains accessible via this website, offering researchers, students and practitioners an effective platform for learning baseline scheduling, risk analysis, and project control..

Note: ProTrack is a legacy research tool. While it is no longer commercially maintained and some features may be outdated or buggy, it remains a valuable resource for exploring empirical project data, studying dynamic scheduling concepts, and understanding project performance research.

Learn how ProTrack helped us shaping our past research

• EVM Europe was a European conference initiative dedicated to Earned Value Management and integrated project control, founded in 2009 with the aim of bringing together researchers and practitioners under the motto "Research meets Practice." Over five editions (2009–2013), hosted by leading European universities, the conference provided a platform for discussing advances in project performance measurement, scheduling, and risk management. After its fifth conference in 2013, the EVM Europe series was discontinued, but it remains an important milestone in the development of a European research and practitioner community around project control and Earned Value Management.

• In 2011, Mario Vanhoucke (Ghent University) initiated a major Concerted Research Action (CRA) in project management, backed by Ghent University funding, to advance the understanding of project performance drivers and improve methods for predicting and controlling project success. This integrated research programme focused on identifying static and dynamic project drivers and exploring how management and contingency reserves affect project outcomes, bringing together a multi-disciplinary team and extensive research activities through the early 2010s. The CRA ran for several years in the 2010s, producing a rich body of work in project control, scheduling, and performance measurement, before the core funded phase concluded.
  

Learn Dynamic Scheduling with ProTrack
A practical tutorial introducing the core concepts and methods of dynamic project scheduling and how schedules adapt and evolve in real-world projects.