Discuss an experience of resource constraints that you were personally affected by or involved in resolving.

Read: Textbook

Larson, E. W., & Gray, C. F. (2021). Project management: The managerial process. (8th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

• Chapter 8: Scheduling Resources and Costs
• Chapter 9: Reducing Project Duration
  

  Read: Articles

  Batselier, J., & Vanhoucke, M. (2015). Evaluation of deterministic state-of-the-art forecasting approaches for project duration based on earned value management. (Links to an external site.) International Journal of Project Management, 33(7), 1588-1596. Lo, W., & Kuo, M. (2013). Cost impact of float loss on a project with adjustable activity durations. (Links to an external site.) Journal of The Operational Research Society, 64(8), 1147-1156.Pfeifer, J., Barker, K., Ramirez-Marquez, J. E., & Morshedlou, N. (2015). Quantifying the risk of project delays with a genetic algorithm. (Links to an external site.) International Journal of Production Economics, 170, 34-44.The five most common project cost management challenges and their resolutions. (Links to an external site.) (2016). ENR: Engineering News-Record, I1-I2.

  Initial Post

  It is always simplest when a project can progress from start to finish with no significant modifications. Still, when an issue arises, the project manager must consider all viable options—the culture of the company, the customer’s tolerance for improvement, the impact any change will have on the quality of the project, and the ability to meet future milestones.

• 1. Discuss an experience of resource constraints that you were personally affected by or involved in resolving.
• 2. Did you apply any techniques or resources to help you resolve the issue that were mentioned in the course materials?
• 3. How effective was the solution?