Improved critical-chain Multi-project planning: Using more realistic assumptions

This paper addresses the problem of multi-project planning using critical chain concept, while considering more realistic assumptions, such as: precedence relations among projects, bottleneck resource transfer times, resource constraint considerations, and the condition that all projects may not need the bottleneck resource. Two algorithms with different assumptions are presented and the results of planning multi-project test problems, using the two different algorithms are presented.

Keywords:

component , Multi-project planning , Critical chain , Uncertainty