Resource Allocation - Vancouver Island University, Degree 资源分配-温哥华岛大学，学位.pptVIP

Minimum Slack First – This rule sorts the competing tasks by the amount of slack they currently have and assigns resources starting at the low end of the list. This rule favors activities on or close to being on the critical path. Task that are delayed lose slack and so have a relatively higher priority in the next time period. (This tends to be the best method) Most Critical Followers – This rule sorts the competing tasks by the number (count) of critical path activities that follow each one. Resources are assigned starting at the high end of the list. Most Successors – This rule sorts the competing tasks by the number (count) of successors that follows each one. Resources are assigned starting at the high end of the list. Arbitrary – Resources are assigned in some other way. This may involve a value judgment like which customer is perceived as most important. Some of the problems addressed in his Theory of Constraints: Thoughtless optimism Management’s desire to set capacity equal to demand in spite of evidence to the contrary coming from the shop floor. The “Student Syndrome” which describes the tendency of people to put tasks off until the last minute. Multitasking used as a justification by management to reduce idle time. Complexity of networks makes no difference People need a reason to work hard used as a justification by management to cut back on durations Game playing wherein workers inflate estimates under the (correct) assumption that management will arbitrarily cut them Goldratt recommends That projects be scheduled based on the availability of the key resources. That individual activities have such short durations that workers can’t apply the Student Syndrome. That to manage uncertainty discrete buffer time be added to the overall project duration. ordering activities into paths based on their resource dependencies as well as their predecessor/successor relationships. The longest path is the “critical chain.” Activities on the critic