ABSTRACT
Many complex projects, sequence-based scheduling and function-based scheduling practices are used so that the project environment can be responsive to and sensitive to prevailing scenarios with the project schedule itself. It is to this end that a generic multiresource project scheduling methodology is presented in this chapter. The approach incorporates the following:
1. Resource characteristics, such as preferences, time-effective capabilities, costs, and availability of project resources
2. Performance interdependencies among different resource groups
Based on the previous considerations, the methodology maps the most adequate resource units to each newly scheduled project activity as presented by Milatovic and Badiru (2004). The major challenge in this generic model development is to make it applicable to realistic project environments, which often involve multifunctional resources, whose capabilities or other characteristics may cross activities, as well as within a single activity relative to specic interactions among resources themselves. The scope of this research challenge further increases when the actual duration, cost, and successful completion of a project activity is assumed as resource driven and dependent on the choice of particular resource units assigned to it.
