Non-delay scheduling as a managerial approach for managing projects

International Journal of Project Management

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 330-336

  Zwikael, Ofer ^a   Cohen, Yuval ^b   Sadeh, Arik ^c  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Branch and bound; Managing projects; Non delay scheduling; Resource constraints; Theory of constraints; Time

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANNING; SCHEDULING;

NON-DELAY SCHEDULING; PROJECT DEVELOPMENT; PROJECT DURATION; PROJECT RISK; RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHM;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

PLANNING METHOD; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33645966496     PISSN: 02637863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2005.11.002     Document Type: Article

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