ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with project management computer systems by describing a few special applications that can either save considerable planning and scheduling time or provide specialist management information. One method for dealing sensibly with the problem of planning projects that stretch into the distant future is rolling wave planning. The planner compiles the project network with as much detail as is sensible and possible, given the information available at the start of the project. Many companies choose to do without network-based multiproject scheduling. Construction companies which rely mainly on subcontractors for their site work, for example, will be able to leave most manpower resource scheduling to the individual firms. Each of the former individual projects becomes, effectively, a 'subproject' within the new total project. The multiproject model can be expected to have a continuous but constantly changing existence. Preparation for multiproject scheduling is very similar to that required for single project scheduling.
