Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling with Project Management Information Systems

Philipp Baumann () and Norbert Trautmann ()
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Philipp Baumann: University of Bern
Norbert Trautmann: University of Bern

Chapter Chapter 62 in Handbook on Project Management and Scheduling Vol. 2, 2015, pp 1385-1400 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Most commercial project management software Project management software see Project management information system Project management information system (PMIS) packages include planning methods to devise schedules for resource-constrained projects. As it is proprietary information of the software vendors which planning methods are implemented, the question arises how the software packages differ in quality with respect to their resource-allocation capabilities. We experimentally evaluate the resource-allocation Resource allocation capabilities of eight recent software packages by using 1,560 instances with 30, 60, and 120 activities of the well-known PSPLIB library. In some of the analyzed packages, the user may influence the resource allocation by means of multi-level priority rules, whereas in other packages, only few options can be chosen. We study the impact of various complexity parameters and priority rules on the project duration obtained by the software packages. The results indicate that the resource-allocation capabilities of these packages differ significantly. In general, the relative gap between the packages gets larger with increasing resource scarcity and with increasing number of activities. Moreover, the selection of the priority rule has a considerable impact on the project duration. Surprisingly, when selecting a priority rule in the packages where it is possible, both the mean and the variance of the project duration are in general worse than for the packages which do not offer the selection of a priority rule.

Keywords: Experimental performance analysis; Project management; Project management information systems; Project scheduling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-05915-0_32

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