resource conflicts

Project scheduling is the act of constructing a timetable for each project activity, respecting the precedence relations and the limited availability of the renewable resources, while optimizing a predefined scheduling objective (see “Resource constrained project scheduling: What is my scheduling objective?”). Although time is often considered as the dominant scheduling objective, other objectives are often crucial from a practical point-of-view. The various possible scheduling objectives can be classified in two categories, as follows:

Activities require renewable resources during their execution which are limited on a periodic basis (see “Resource types: Renewable and consumable resources”). In practice, activities need resources during their execution that are often limited in availability. In this article, the connection between the resource requirements of activities and the limited availability of these resources is discussed along the following topics:

It is a wise and generally accepted management principle to put a focus on the constraining or limiting factor of a system that determines the system’s goal. In project management and scheduling, the scheduling objective is the objective during the construction of a project baseline schedule.

Project scheduling is the act of constructing a timetable for each project activity, and differs in complexity due to the presence of renewable resources with limited availability. In this article, three important aspects of scheduling will be discussed, as given along the following lines: