ProjectManagement: an R Package for Managing Projects

Abstract

Project management is an important body of knowledge and practices that comprises the planning, organisation and control of resources to achieve one or more predetermined objectives. In this paper, we introduce ProjectManagement, a new R package that provides the necessary tools to manage projects in a broad sense, and illustrate its use by examples.

Project Risk in the Context of Construction Schedules—Combined Monte Carlo Simulation and Time at Risk (TaR) Approach: Insights from the Fort Bema Housing Estate Complex

“…To better illustrate the dependencies between individual project stages, we use the method described in the paper by Gonçalves-Dosantos et al [21]. There are four types of relationships between the activities undertaken in a project (the different stages are subject In the following Section 3.3 we will also show how to visualise the layout of individual stages of the project, which is best illustrated by Gantt charts widely used in investment projects, and activity-on-node (AON) graphs.…”

“…To better illustrate the dependencies between individual project stages, we use the method described in the paper by Gonçalves-Dosantos et al [21]. There are four types of relationships between the activities undertaken in a project (the different stages are subject to the same principle), namely finish-start (FS), start-start (SS), finish-finish (FF), and start-finish (SF):…”

“…Also, many problems related to project implementation and project management can be solved with the use of game theory, which allows for the shifting (and appropriate allocation) of resources between specific activities (and phases/stages) of a project. This requires some trade-off between the execution times and costs of each activity [21]. That is, it is possible to reduce the time for a given task by allocating more resources to its execution; this depletion of resources is later compensated at the expense of the execution times of some non-critical tasks.…”