Large, complex business projects require thousands of separate activities and can cost millions of dollars. With such high stakes, managing these projects poses a challenge to any large organization.

(This material is not covered in Fraser, Bernhardt and Jewkes. A good reference text is Hillier and Lieberman, ``Introduction to Operations Research'', published by Holden-Day; the fourth edition of ...

The conventional procedure for determining the expected project completion time is to find the critical path; its duration is treated as the expected completion time for the project. It is known among ...

Business scheduling is the process of creating formal plans to structure complex projects. Scheduling tools work for everyday tasks, such as scheduling work shifts or order placements, or for large ...