Project management case studies, 5th edition wiley. A study of using critical chain project management method. Pmi scheduling professional pmi sp exam content outline 5 task 10 perform schedule risk analysis using quantitative tools or techniques for example, whatif scenarios, monte carlo simulation in order to determine if project milestone dates are achievable within acceptable risk tolerances. Scheduling the project activities project management. These case study deals with project management leadership, operational challenges and opportunities, inventory management and planning, strategic network optimization, different forecasting dilemmas etc. It includes powerpoint slides the powerpoint presentation highlights the key points, concepts, illustrations and diagrams associated with. Customized services have a special appeal to healthcare delivery as every patient is biologically different and has individualspecific needs for healthcare services, thus healthcare service personalization generates a fundamental addedvalue for patients. A case study for advanced planning and scheduling aps. Project scheduling on quick serve tenant improvement projects robert m. A study of using critical chain project management method for multiproject management improvement. A b s t r a c t in todays competitive environment completing a project within time and budget, is very challenging. Once these items are defined, someone has to develop a plan and manage the scope and schedule of the project, especially as inevitable changes occur. By using construction schedule to predict project completion, contractors can adjust crew size, shifts or equipment to speed or slow the progress. Projectprogram management success in the office of justice services, bureau of indian affairs.
Not only that, you will learn the planning and scheduling skills and see how it is applied in primavera p6. Indeed, project scheduling is vital to project execution success and in accomplishing the objectives and. Completing a project on time and within budget is not an easy task. This fifth edition of project management case studies features more than one hundred case studies that detail projects at highprofile. Keywords time cost trade off, project scheduling, aircraft maintenance. Any form of network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource. Case study contents problem statement mathematical formulation gams model references. Every one of us is a manager of projects of our own life. Understanding applications of project planning and. Caselet 02 explains the process of identifying the project activities. Critical path scheduling is a simple technique to achieve this, there are many software tools to support it. The effectiveness of a project manager can be seen in the way he manages key project variables like time, cost and quality. Scheduling is the basis for nearly all construction planning.
Application of critical path method for project scheduling. A novel algorithm for solving resourceconstrained project. Pdf planning and scheduling of project using microsoft. A comparison of the companys processes before and after implementation of the project management software systems is presented and analyzed. Project planning, scheduling and costing a case study on. This is also similar to academia where a number of cases are integrated into textbooks.
The main aim was to study and describe project stakeholders perspectives regarding a set of identified criteria comprising aspects assumed to. From a house wife to an employee to financial analyst, from banker to doctor, from engineer to administrator, from a teacher to a student, we all work on different tasks with deadlines. Business analysis case study i need to complete a business assessment case study. The incidents described are typical of the types of things that happen in real.
Mrp, cost, quality, scheduling process, project management. Project planning and scheduling plays a central role in predicting both the time and cost aspects of a project. It includes developing a project plan, which comprises defining and confirming the project goals and objectives, identifying tasks and how goals will be achieved. Primavera or microsoft project to the cad elements to produce effective 4d schedules. A case study jobshop project planning and scheduling problem. Planning scheduling and delay analysis case study iarjset. Planning and scheduling is not an easy task, it is one of the most important tasks in the project management. Project scheduling with the critical path method neos.
A case study jobshop project planning and scheduling. Project planning and scheduling using pert and cpm. Production scheduling final presentation lina huang, taeyoung choi, tiger zuo. Watch out for scope creep when customers change requirements midcycle the degree to which. Introduction project is an activity to meet the creation of unique product or service and thus activities are undertaken to. The second step in the assessment was looking at historical scheduling data, and combining that with the knowledge extracted in the first interviews and the understanding of the scheduling process.
Therefore the study on construction planning and scheduling must be conduct to provide knowledge on this topic and a view on how it is be implement theoretically and in the real case of construction project. Case study the main purpose of this paper is to present the application of current project management software systems into a companys processes to help with the paperless jobsite. What makes this case of projectprogram management success that much more interesting and worthy of mention is the majority of individuals involved were not even aware that they were practicing. This paper presents a case study for the advanced planning and scheduling aps problem encountered in a light source manufacturer. The aps problem explicitly considers due dates of products, operation sequences among items, and capacity constraints of the manufacturing system. Critical success factors for planning, scheduling and. Scheduling project crashing time using linear programming.
Operations management case studies project planning case. Pdf handbook for construction planning and scheduling. Project management using excel, page 2 introduction project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, and controlling resources to achieve specific goals. The combination of all activities form project and arrange the project activities according to project requirement in optimum way are known as. Planning and scheduling within the construction context. Contingency for cost control in project management. Case studies and examples organizing and planning for. Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations of a project. A few standalone case books dedicated to project management are also available. Caselet 01 discusses a typical project management problem which requires the manager to use various techniques to schedule activities so as to complete the project within the minimum possible time. This study is aimed at finding tradeoff between the cost and minimum expected time that will be required to complete the building project. The idea is to use these cases as a means to accelerate the project management learning. Introduction in real life activities are performed using different resources in a regular manner.
Based on the case study in construction project, icapso algorithm has a better solution than pso and ica. A case study for improving construction project management. This article describes the issues faced and lessons learned from a 4d scheduling initiative. Understanding applications of project planning and scheduling in construction projects. The following case study concentrates on the time constraint and involves implementation of cpm in the optimization of the manufacturing. Project planning, scheduling and costing a case study on highway project 1deekshith kumar jain, 2mithanthaya i r, 1post graduate student, 2 professor department of civil engineering, nmam institute of technology, nitte, karnataka, india abstract construction projects become complicated and fragmented so that many special contractors are. Partialexperience components existing project code is related but requires substantial modification and team has limited experience in the application area. Which includes business requirements template to fill, activity diagramprocess flow needs to be created in microsoft visio, tasks and project schedule needs to be created on microsoft project. A number of researchers and practitioners have explicitly called for a redesign of the healthcare system based on mass. Andrew makar is an it program manager and is the author of the microsoft project made easy series. A project plan is developed once the business case and project charter.
Milad akrami, alireza ghasemi, uday venkatadri and mahdi tajbakhsh. The course is created to teach you primavera p6 with a reallife construction case study. This study is within the field of construction management where the critical success factors for planning, scheduling and control are analyzed for two different management methods, namely lean construction planning systems and traditional construction management planning methods. Application of critical path method for project scheduling a case study swati razdan 1, mayur pirgal 2, abhishek hanch ate 3, mrs. Malone california polytechnic state university san luis obispo california scheduling is the basis for nearly all construction planning.
Halder department of industrial and production engineering, jessore university of science and technology, jessore7408, bangladesh. Operations management case studies helps to come out with various operational and project planning challenges in an organization. Preface for students about the student guide this student guide is designed to supplement the presentation on project planning, scheduling, and control. The objective of the problem is to seek the minimum cost of both production idle time and tardiness or. Project planning, scheduling, and control student guide. Electronic arts and the power of strong culture in design teams 67 summary 68 key terms 70 discussion questions 70 case study 2. Keywords cpm, ms project, basics of cpm scheduling, gantt chart i. Max wideman aew services, vancouver, bc, canada, 2002 introduction i first developed this case study in 1993 for a local construction project management course.
What this really means is taking a large amount of historical data, and comparing it to some initial results from an automated solver, which has. For small tenant improvement projects, time is often of the essence. In this study, a case of an apartment building has been taken to display how proper planning and scheduling is done using ms project. Case study in application of project scheduling system for construction supply chain management kalyan vaidyanathan1. Its chairman and chief executive officer is ron carpenter now in his latesixties. Scheduling project crashing time using linear programming approach. Organizational culture and project management 66 project profile. Patil2 1post graduation student of construction and management in civil engineering department, bscoer, narhe, pune, savitribai phule pune university. This paper, based on a reallife case study, looks at the job shop scheduling problem from a project planning and scheduling. Case studies of the congestion management process html this series of indepth case studies is a companion to the guidebook and focuses on the congestion management process cmp. Pdf application of critical path method for project scheduling a. The data on the cost and duration of activities involved were obtained angel.
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