The Mutum Paraná II bridge, Case B

On Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 116 students had to solve the Mutum Paraná II bridge case study (part B) as part of the course “Project Management” at the faculty of Engineering of Ghent University. The aim was to analyse project data and to present the results to the project team of the company in a written report. Below you find some key metrics of their analyses:

Evolutionary computing in personnel rostering on the 13^th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Vienna, Austria)

Handbook of Heuristics: Theory and Applications

In the new handbook published by Nova Publishers, the article "An Empirical Investigation of Different Solution Strategies for Meta-Heuristic Optimization: Solution Representation, Diversity and Space Reduction" written at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (Ghent University) has finally been published. Below you find information about the book and a link to the website of the publisher.

Editor: Patrick Siarry (Université de Paris, Creteil, France)

Universiteit Gent, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde zoekt

GEDREVEN ONDERZOEKERS/DOCTORANDI (m/v)

In het domein van

Projectmanagement en Operationeel Onderzoek

Te starten tussen 01/09/2013 en 01/10/2013

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The Art of Project Management: A Story about Work and Passion

Dynamic Scheduling

Integrating baseline scheduling, schedule risk analysis and project control

As promised, the third and last "dynamic Scheduling" folder is now available, as mentioned in the previous blog entry.

Within a few days, these folders will appear in the upcoming new book "The Art of Project Management: A Story about Work and Passion".

Five observations on the two-days training on dynamic Scheduling: Integrated Project Controls

March 5-6, 2013
Vilnius, Lithuania

The Project Scheduling Game

Belgium, the Netherlands and Lithuania in one day! 

Today, it was a successful day for our project scheduling game. The civil Engineers played the game for the Project Management course at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Ghent University. The lectures were given by Mathieu Wauters and Len Vandenheede.

Dynamic Scheduling

Integrating baseline scheduling, schedule risk analysis and project control

As promised, the second "dynamic Scheduling" folder is now available, as mentioned in the previous blog entry.

Dynamic Scheduling

Integrating baseline scheduling, schedule risk analysis and project control

Dynamic Scheduling is a Project Management methodology to plan, monitor and control projects in progress in order to deliver them on time and within budget to your client. It  focuses on the integration of three crucial aspects that are lying in the heart and soul of ProTrack, as follows: