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| The use of software
for project management has been done from the time
personal computers have become available economically and
with features to handle large volume of data with ease
and speed. Project management packages were not a reality
till the time when 80386 systems had gained its foothold.
While software packages were available even before the
advent of 80386 machines the slower speed of the machines
really made it difficult to run the software packages of
that time to handle any project of complexity.
While the packages as the Harvard project management
packages of that time allowed project management they ran
awfully slow unless it was atleast a 80386 machine and
preferably it was a 80486 machine. |
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80486 machines the project management packages were
possible to be put to some real use . However , most of
the project management packages deal with projects which
assume that the work is limited to single activity at a
single site and do not effectively take care properly of
projects spread over multiple sites as is quite often
with telecommunication projects and other similar
projects spread over multiple sites. |
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| The project
management packages while allowing the use of CPMPERT
techniques for projects limited to single sites are
awfully short of features which can support works at
multiple locations mainly because it lacks the facility
of allowing the lag to be defined more than once between
two activities. The failure to define multiple lags
between two activities connected to each other is very
serious in case of multiple sites. Consider that activity
A depends on Activity B. If we define Activity Ai as the
activity A at site i and Bi as activity B at site i
then Ai cannot start before Bi viz. A has SS lag
with B . But if the activity B at the last site is
Bl then Al cannot finish before Bl which means that
A now also has FF lag with activity B. The
conventional project management package cannot deal with
such a situation effectively. This problem can be dealt
with by introduction of a dummy activity and defining the
same activity at each of the sites as different
activities . When the number of sites become very large
this can become very cumbersome and will not yield any
material benefit in spite of the complicated handling of
the system. |
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| MSACESS
can be used for simple project management package for
such activities at multiple sites without the need of
great to learn new techniques. The need of a project
management for multiple sites are the ability to define
the volume of a activity, the weightage of a
particular activity, the resource of a activity and the
relative time a activity takes for unit volume of work.
There is also a need to define the name of sites where
the work will be done . In a more real life situation it
is also required to take care of a number os
projects at the same time. For monitoring a situation as
this there is a need to define certain main activities
and monitor these. There is a need to find out the dates
when other activities should start or end depending
on the date of the completion of the last activity
depicting the end of a project. For demonstration
of a simple project management package for multiple sites
ask for more information on multi site
project management software. |
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