Exam 8: Scheduling Resources and Costs

The inability to get more than two earth movers on a construction site at the same time is an example of a physical constraint.

The ability to more efficiently manage the ebbs and flows of project work is one of the major driving forces behind ____________ today.

In order that the new product is on the shelf for the Christmas buying season, the development of the new product would be classified as a(n) ________ constrained project.

A shortage of programmers to write software is an example of a(n) ________ type of resource constraint.

Splitting an activity creates the following situation:

To deal with problems related to having several concurrent projects, companies are creating ________ to oversee the scheduling of resources across multiple projects.

Describe the parallel method for applying heuristics to the allocation of project resources.

In scheduling resource-constrained projects, _________ are typically used rather than optimum mathematical solutions.

Identify and briefly discuss the three more common problems encountered in managing multiproject resource schedules.

When a company will reduce the number of projects they have to manage internally to only core projects and send noncritical projects to contractors and consulting firms this is called

If a project needs one earth-mover six months from now and the organization has four such machines, there is no equipment resource constraint.

The U.S.Forest Service "snapshot from practice" illustrated the importance of

The ______________ is the most widely used approach to apply heuristics in resource-constrained projects.

Identify and briefly describe the two classifications of scheduling problems.

A lack of readily available engineers is a technical constraint.

The shortage of computer chips to produce a circuit board is an example of a(n) ________ type of resource constraint.

Having too few programmers and too many engineers is an example of a people resource constraint.

Scheduling time-constrained projects focuses on the optimal utilization of resources.

In a resource-constrained project the third priority in assigning resources is usually given to activities with the

More common problems associated with managing multiproject resources include all of the following except