In this study we compared seven commercial Software packages for project management. Employing multi attribute value theory, the comparison is based on a sound decision-theoretic framework. Additionally, we included a comprehensive assessment of the capability to solve resource-constrained...

This study assesses the quality of seven commercial project management packages to schedule precedence- and resource-constrained projects. We introduce the basic project scheduling model and give a short survey of optimal and heuristic Solution methods. Furthermore, we outline extensions of the...

We present a set of benchmark instances for the evaluation of Solution procedures for single- and multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problems. The instances have been systematically generated by the Standard project generator ProGen. They are characterized by the input-parameters...

This study assesses the quality of seven commercial project management systems to perform finite scheduling. We give a brief survey of the way commercial project management systems work and especially how they perform finite scheduling. Since the implemented methods are proprietary, we measure...

We consider the classical resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP). The paper gives a detailed algorithmic description and provides theoretical results on two widely known problem specific heuristics: The serial and the parallel scheduling scheme. An in-depth computational study...

We consider a generalization of the classical resource constrained project scheduling problem. We introduce so-called partially reiiewable resources by assuming for each resource a capacity on subsets of periods. The concept of partially renewable resources is a fundamental tool in order to make...

Project management is a challenging profession as project managers need to be multi-skilled i.e. both technical and people oriented in handling all the scarce resources and minimizing risk to accomplish quality deliverables within deadlines set (PMI, 2008). However, there is still lack of...

Today, more and more project teams are formed to achieve organizational objectives as organizations generally recognized the importance and benefits of project teams. However, in order to ensure project teams perform effectively, project managers need to learn and exhibit some of the leadership...

Today, more and more project teams are formed to achieve organisational objectives as organisations generally recognized the importance and benefits of project teams. Rationales for this study include: (a) it is unclear from literature what kind of relationships among performance outcomes, team...