Operations Research and Project Management Past, Present and Future
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In project management the large number of publications about operation research topics contrast to the small number of real applications. The author analyzes the reasons of the poor acceptance and the implementation gap and makes some suggestions to bridge this gap. A closer cooperation between software developers, operations research experts and users and new methodical approaches are demanded.
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Further Research Opportunities in Project Management
Overview of Project Management
Critical Analysis of Project Management Methodologies and Its Tools
A comprehensive bibliography can be found, e.g. in the following work: Slowinski, R.; Weglarz, R. (Eds.) Advances in Project Scheduling. Studies in Production and Engineering Economics 9, Amsterdam 1989.
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Refer to Kaufmann, A Réseaux et Systèmes dans L’Incertain Structure. Utilisation pratique et efficace des concepts flous, in: Gutsch, R.; Reschke, H.; Schelle, H (Eds.): Proceedings of the 6th Internet Congress 1979, Vol. 5, Düsseldorf 1980, S. 59–101.
Liberatore, M.J.; Titus, G.J The Practice of Management Science in R and D Project Management. Management Science, Vol. 29, No. 8, August 1983, p. 962–974.
Refer to Cleland, D.I.; King, W.R (Eds.): Project Management Handbook, sec. ed. New York 1988; Reschke, H.; Schelle, H.; Schnopp, R. (Eds.) Handbuch Projekunanagement, Vol. I and II, Düsseldorf 1989 An exception is represented by the article of Souder in the manual of Cleland and King: Souder, W.: Selection Projects that Maximize Profits, pp. 140–164. The author, however, expresses a rather critical opinion about many models applicable to project selection.
Wagner, H.M Operations Research: A Global Language for Business Strategy, in: Operations Research, Vol. 36, No. 5, September-October 1988, pp. 797–803, p. 798. Contrary to the title of the article, the essentially operational problems. After analysing Wagners examples, however, the cited applications have to be assigned to bulk and series production.
Kilger, W Optimale Produktions-und Absatzplanung (Optimal Production-and Marketing Planning), Opladen 1973, p. 11
Refer, e.g., to the following work, containing a lot of bibliographical references: Slowinski, R.; Weglarz, J. (Eds.) : Advances in Project Scheduling. Amsterdam 1989. A very astonishing fact is that none of the authors seriously discusses questions of computer-assisted capacity planning or problems of user surface design.
Souder, W.E.; Maher, P.M.; Baker, N.R.; Shumway, C.R. and Rubenstein, A.H An Organizational Intervention Approach to the Design and Implementation of RandD Project Selection Models, in: Schultz, R.Ö.; Slevin, D.P (Eds.): Implementing Operations Research/Management Science. New York 1975, pp. 133–152, p. 133.
Refer to Schelle, H Unternehmensleitung und Management-Informations-Systeme [Company Management and Management Informations System], in Schelle, H.; Molzberger, P. (Eds.) Psychologische Aspekte der Software-Entwicklung [Psychological aspects of software development], Munich 1983, pp. 237–271, here p. 258.
Souder et al ii I.c., p. 138.
Müller, D Methoden der Ablauf-und Terminplanung von Projekten [Methods of Project Process Planning and Scheduling] in: Reschke, H.; Schelle, H.; Schnopp, R. (Eds.) Handbuch Projektmanagement [Project Management Manual], Vol. 1, Cologne 1990, pp. 263311, herep. 283.
Refer to Bicker etc., etc.
Refer to the synoptic article by Whatley, N.M Cost/Schedule/ Technical Performance Risk Analysis, in: Stewart, R.D.; Wyskida, R.M. (Eds.) Cost Estimators Reference Manual. New York 1986, pp. 259–310.
A typical example is represented by the book of Heintel, P.; Krainz E.E.: Projektmanagement. Eine Antwort auf die Hierarchiekrise? [Project Management. A reply to the hierarchical crisis?]; Wiesbaden 1988. This book published by two psychologists contains hardly any references to quantitative methods but only deals with organization-psychological questions.
Müller-Ettrich, R Einsatzmittelplanung. Stand und Probleme der projektbezogenen Einsatzmittelplanung [Resource planning. Status and problems of project-related resource planning] in: Reschke, H.; Schelle, H.; Schnopp, R. (Eds.) Handbuch Projektmanagement [Project Management Manual], Vol. I, pp. 313–329, here p. 314.
Dworatschek, S., Gutsch, R The Future of Project Management. Results of Theses Markets, GPM Nachrichten Nr. 12, 1987, p.
Concerning the neglect of description by business administration in general, referto Schelle, H.: Unternehmensleitung und Management-Informations-System [Company Management and Management Information System], in: Schelle, H.; Molzberger, P. (Eds.)
With respect to methodology refer to Schelle, H.; Schnopp, R.; Schwald, A Measurement of the User Friendliness of Project Management Software: A New Approach, in: From Conception to Completion, Proceedings of the 9th World Congress on Project Management, September 4th-9th 1988, Glasgow, pp. 1021–1029.
Dreyfus, H.L.; Dreyfus, S.E Künstliche Intelligenz. Von den Grenzen der Denkmaschine und dem Wert der Intuition [Artificial Intelligence. Of the limits of the thinking machine and the value of intuition]. Hamburg 1987, p. 217
Morton, M.S.; Huff, S The Impact of Computers on Planning and Decision Making, in: Smith, H.T.; Grenn, T.R.G. (Eds.) Human Interaction with Computers. London 1980, pp. 177–201.
in: Schelle, H.; Voglmaier, E.; Madauss, IL : Symposium Life Cycle Cost, GPM-Arbeitstexte zum Projektmanagement [GPM working texts on project management], Munich 1986, pp. 209–225.
Refer to Schelle, H.; Seiler, R .: Expertensysteme im Projektmanagement. Versuch einer Bestandsaufnahme, [Expert systems in project management. The attempt to make an inventory] in Reschke, H.; Schelle, H . (Eds.): Projektmanagement. Beiträge zur GPM-Jahrestagung 1987 [Project management. Contributions to the GPM annual meeting 1987], pp. 331–340.
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Schelle, H. (1990). Operations Research and Project Management Past, Present and Future. In: Reschke, H., Schelle, H. (eds) Dimensions of Project Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49344-7_11
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