Project Scheduling with Resource Considerations

摘要

A great deal of research in activity network based project resource management seems not to have found wide spread adoption. We briefly consider why this is true and pose some new research problems. Based on a broad look at research in project resource management, one fact seems certain. All previous research has focused on a problem paradigm abstracted from its original source. Thus, no consideration is given to the problem environment. This seems to be a fundamental error. Without considering some aspects of the problem environment, how can we develop problem specific tools. Or, how can we develop general tools that will allow the manager or analyst to gain access to the general models and results in a useful and meaningful way. The abstraction from problem environment also has lead us to focus on analysis to the exclusion of synthesis. We've taken the relatively easy analysis problem and solved it in great detail, without any thought to the difficult design problem.