Mario Vanhoucke's blog

Since a few weeks, the book "Project Management with dynamic scheduling: baseline scheduling, risk analysis and project control" written by Mario Vanhoucke is published by Springer. The content of the book can be summarized in five main parts:

The 13th International Conference on Project Management and Scheduling was interesting and inspiring.

Yesterday evening, Wednesday April 5, 2012, the biyearly conference was closed with a network dinner at the Brabanthallen in Leuven (Belgium).

The 13th International Conference on Project Management and Scheduling took place in Leuven, from April 1 till April 4, in the buildings of the Faculty of Business and Economics and was organized by the Operations Management Research Group of the Faculty of Business and Economics (KULeuven).

At the chapter event of PMI-Belgium held on March 7, 2012, five students of Mario Vanhoucke have received the PMI-Belgium University Contest prize for their written manuscript titled "Windmolenpark Maldegem"

Schedule Risk Analysis is one of the three main features in ProTrack 3.0. Its relevance has been discussed widely in literature.

A recent article shows what it is is and why one should do it. Check it here. 

For a more detailed analysis on how, why and when, two articles have been published in the Omega journal. Find them here:

The students Evelyn De Blieck and Ellen De Groote have received the PMI-Belgium prize for the best thesis on Project Management during the graduation ceremony for the Commercial Engineers (Handelsingenieurs). The thesis was supervised by Prof. dr. Mario Vanhoucke from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (www.feb.ugent.be) from the Ghent University.