jmeissen@cse.ogi.edu (John Meissen) (10/08/90)
The Oregon Advanced Computing Institute (OACIS) is looking for a project planning and management system with the following capabilities: 1) The ability to specify "Task Work Units". That is, we want to be able to specify the time it takes to perform a task in man-months, man-weeks or some other unit. Then, depending on how many resources are assined to that task, the system should automatically adjust the duration of the task. MacProject II has this capability. 2) The ability to specify multiple precedence relationships accross sub- projects. Suppose I have a hierarchical structure in my project consisting of multiple levels of sub-projects and tasks. It may be required to set precedence relationships between various tasks in different sub-projects. SunTrack has this capability. 3) The ability to perform resource leveling with the constraints of the available resources, including allocating the percentage of time resources are assigned to tasks. Suppose I am designing a project in which there are a number of people constituting a given resource. I need to have the system assign these resources to different tasks and possibly allocate the percentage of time that this resource spends on given tasks. The object is to minimize the duration of the project, without exceeding the total resources allocated for the project. Presumably, if the desired schedule cannot be met, more resources can be allocated. Thanks for any assistance. Please reply via e-mail. G. William Walster, Research Director, Computation and Algorithms, OACIS fuddy@oacis.org