Project Scheduling with Precedence Constraints and Scarce Resources: An Experimental Analysis of Commercial Project Management Software

Norbert Trautmann () and Philipp Baumann ()
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Norbert Trautmann: Universität Bern, Departement Betriebswirtschaftslehre, AP Quantitative Methoden
Philipp Baumann: Universität Bern, Departement Betriebswirtschaftslehre, AP Quantitative Methoden

Chapter 27 in Operations Research Proceedings 2008, 2009, pp 165-170 from Springer

Abstract: Summary We report on the results of an experimental analysis where we have compared the resource allocation capabilities of recent versions of 5 commercial project management software packages against state-of-the-art solution methods from the literature. For our analysis, we have used 1560 RCPSP instances from the standard test set PSPLIB. The results indicate that using the automatic resource allocating feature of those packages may result in project durations that are considerably longer than necessary, in particular when the resource scarcity is high or when the number of activities is large.

Keywords: Resource Allocation; Project Schedule; Resource Capacity; Precedence Relationship; Project Schedule Problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00142-0_27

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