Resource Scheduling Methods Analysis
It has been said, “A schedule is… An instruction to a fool… A guide to a wise person. In retrospect scheduling is an important part of project management to anyone that has and ever will be engaged in such a task.. This monograph will be an analysis of the concept of resource scheduling, evaluation of various methods used to schedule resources, the benefits and challenges associated with each, and methods of when each would be most appropriate. As well a choice will be made about which is most appropriate for the authors’ Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) project.
In resource scheduling as with almost anything in life, there are benefits and challenges. A few of the benefits of resource scheduling can be listed as: It improves the probability for the project team to meet its goal, it establishes overall schedule parameters, aids in determining staffing requirements, assist in the determination of resource loading basis, identifies long lead items, and areas of high risk (Gray, Larson, 2011).
Challenges to resource scheduling are; having sufficient detail to control the project. Too much detail is cumbersome to maintain. Not enough detail and analysis of the schedule is difficult. Communication will definitely be challenged when relaying the status of the project to others. When communication is poor, lacking or non-existent, project time as well as cost may be extended and or increased, which may lead to unfavorable conditions up to and including project failure (SRS, 2010).
There are numerous methods of scheduling resources; the methods that will be examined here are the Milestone Scheduling System, and activity network / Critical Path Method (CPM). With the Milestone Scheduling Sys...
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...defined activities with time long time schedules.
As has been demonstrated in project management some form of resource scheduling is necessary for the project, depending on its scope and size. Early in the planning phase the project team needs to establish the appropriate method and apply the method in order to be able to meet expected and unexpected consequences.
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The search began as operations management at the company recognized the potential for improving production performance at one of their major plants in Hyderabad, called FTO3, based on rated capacities and actual outputs. They were looking for help in exploring ways to address performance more effectively. The production scheduling process, a complex and difficult exercise involving many products and machines in the factory, was carried out manually on Excel sheets with no real-time integrity of their business master and transaction data. Moreover, manual scheduling found it difficult to reap production scheduling efficiencies, while adhering to the rules particular to the pharmaceutical industry, which are mandated and monitored by agencies, such as the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administra...
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Project management is said to be completed within time when it completed within the “triple constraints”: cost, time and quality. And in a lot of causes, one them is sacrificed so as to meet the other two. Project managers prioritize which ones are the most important.
When planning a new project, how the project will be managed is one of the most important factors. The importance of a managers will determine the success of the project. The success of the project will be determined by how well it is managed. Project management is referred to as the discipline that entails the processes of carefully planning, organizing, controlling, and motivating the organization resources so as to foster and facilitate the achievement of specific established and desired goals and meet the specific criteria of success required in the organization (Larson, 2014). Over the course of this paper I will be discussing and analyzing the importance of project management.
Production scheduling: create appropriate schedules for all the level on the organization, maximize of efficiency of
“Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to organisational and project activities to achieve the aims of an organisation through projects” (PMI, 2003).