Multi-Project Management with a Multi-Skilled Workforce: A Quantitative Approach Aiming at Small Project Teams

by Matthias Walter

Overview

This book covers three fundamental problems at the interface of multi-project management and human resource management: the selection of projects, the composition of small project teams, and workload leveling. Matthias Walter proposes optimization models and solution methods for these problems, assuming multi-skilled workers with heterogeneous skill levels. For the first time, the author presents exact and heuristic methods that support managers to form small teams. Additionally, he outlines a new skill chaining strategy that increases workforce flexibility.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783658140809
Publisher:	Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Publication date:	12/06/2015
Series:	Produktion und Logistik
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
Pages:	301
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Dr. Matthias Walter wrote his dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zimmermann at the Operations Research Group at Clausthal University of Technology.

Table of Contents

Multi-Skilled Workers and Flexibility Design.- Project Selection, Workforce Assignment, and Utilization Leveling.- Optimization Models and Complexity Analysis.- Solution Methods and their Numerical Analysis.