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Multi-Project Management with a Multi-Skilled Workforce

Part of the Produktion und Logistik Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-08036-5

ISBN: 978-3-658-08035-8

Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden - Springer Journals

Nov 22, 2014

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Walter, Matthias

Pages: 1 –5

[Multi-project management and human resource management are important pillars of business success. Multi-project management is crucial because the share of work that is accomplished within projects has increased steadily during the past 60 years and in some branches virtually all revenues are...
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Chapter 2Background and motivation

Walter, Matthias

Pages: 7 –37

[In this chapter, we provide general information on three essential elements of the environment in which our three problems are embedded. These elements are multi-project management, multi-skilled workers, and teamwork. In Section 2.1, we elaborate on multiproject management, which is concerned...
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Chapter 3Problem definitions and basic notation

Walter, Matthias

Pages: 39 –51

[In this chapter, we approach our three problems, which are the selection of projects, the assignment of workers to projects, and the distribution of departmental workload. These problems are faced by an organization, e.g., a firm. The organization with its workforce and the projects that the...
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Chapter 4Optimization models and complexity analysis

Walter, Matthias

Pages: 53 –86

[In this chapter, we will present optimization models for the three problems that were outlined in the previous chapter. Furthermore, we will judge the complexity of the problems. In Section 4.1, we discuss the suitability of an integrated approach and of an alternative hierarchical planning...
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Chapter 5Literature review

Walter, Matthias

Pages: 87 –107

[In this chapter, we review the literature that is related to the three problems introduced in the previous two chapters. For the project selection and the workforce assignment problem, a broad overview of related work has already been given in Section 2.1. Here, we narrow our view on...
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Chapter 6Solution methods

Walter, Matthias

Pages: 109 –196

[In this chapter, we will outline solution methods for the three optimization problems modeled in Chapter 4. We concentrate on solution methods for the problem of assigning workers to projects, because this problem is in the focus of our work. Methods for the selection and the leveling problem...
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Chapter 7Numerical analysis

Walter, Matthias

Pages: 197 –274

[In this chapter, we will report how we generated test instances, how we used them to test the solution methods, and what results we obtained. The tests had three major aims. First, we wanted to find out up to which instance sizes exact methods could provide acceptable solutions in acceptable...
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Chapter 8Discussion

Walter, Matthias

Pages: 275 –279

[In this chapter, we discuss the results of the numerical analysis focusing on the hard problems of project selection and workforce assignment. Main results for the project selection problem were that an exact standard solver can provide good solutions even for large-sized instances, that...
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Chapter 9Summary and outlook

Walter, Matthias

Pages: 281 –284

[In this work, we have outlined a hierarchical planning approach to solve three problems that arise in many firms at the interface of multi-project management and human resource management. The problem at the top level is a static project selection problem. The goal of this problem is to...

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