ABSTRACT
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. The organization's managers must therefore look for a way in which to allocate resources over the total company workload, whilst respecting the priority of each project and, indeed, the priority of every activity within each of those projects. Multi-project resource scheduling is an important part of 'programme management', the name given to the collective management of projects across a large company or group of companies. The computer system will require some means of identifying sub-projects, and that will mean allocating a unique sub-project identifier in each case. The technique is carried out by first drawing a master network covering all activities required for a project which is judged to be typical of a range of projects carried out by the organization. Several project management programs include a capability for carrying out probabilistic risk analysis.
