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Considering Project Management Activities for Engineering Design Groups

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  • Abdollah Arasteh

    (Babol Noshirvani University of Technology)

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This paper explores the topic of benefit-augmenting project planning. Accept that an array of potentially beneficial activities is available, but restricted usable resources may not allow each of them to be pursued. Benefit profiles of undertakings are considered to be non-expanding aspects of the time of completion of activities. Formal numerical models are comprehensive for the different variants of the problem, including those incorporating a third group arrangement view. The nature of the problem is analyzed, and the degree of information is improved with respect to the importance of the undertaking, in particular. Future exploration territories include the identification of the general conditions under which the prioritization of tasks can contribute to an optimal arrangement. The increase of better upper limits of the verifiable list program is additionally a hobby. It would also be exciting to understand how the mutual deviation data can be fed back to the preceding phases of the choice of mission and booking.

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  • Abdollah Arasteh, 2020. "Considering Project Management Activities for Engineering Design Groups," SN Operations Research Forum, Springer, vol. 1(4), pages 1-29, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:snopef:v:1:y:2020:i:4:d:10.1007_s43069-020-00037-w
    DOI: 10.1007/s43069-020-00037-w
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