Module 3: Project Crashing & Resources
Summary

SUMMARY

  • Notion of renewable and non-renewable resources in projects discussed.
  • Time-Cost tradeoffs are a legitimate means to handle non-renewable resources like cost.
  • Renewable resources, like manpower and capital equipment can be handled by one of three possible approaches.
  • Resource aggregation
  • Resource levelling
  • Limited resource allocation
  • Heuristic procedures for levelling were presented.
  • A sample problem was solved using the Burgess and Killebrew heuristic.
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Prof.S.G.Deshmukh & Prof.Arun Kanda