1 Abstract Digital's multiyear Alpha AXP program has involved more than two thousand engineers across many disciplines. Innovative management styles and techniques were required to deliver this high-quality program on an aggressive schedule. The Alpha AXP Program Office used a four-point methodology for management: (1) establish an appropriately large shared vision; (2) delegate completely and ...

The paper presents a graph-based approach for scheduling and monitoring temporal events and activities in a system engineering project. It attempts to overcome some of the limitations of traditional project management approaches by allowing specifications of real-time milestones, and by breaking the finish-start barrier between the activities. An illustrative example presents the approach.

W e report on a successful project for transference of advanced planning and scheduling technology for outage management, a collaboration between Rome Laboratory, the Electrical Power Research Institute, Kam a n Science; and Kestrel Institute, as part of DOD’s dual-use program. The main goal of the project was to evaluate the use of transformational approaches and AI technology to solve real-wo...

Since 1997, the Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) method has received considerable attention. Hundreds of successful CCPM cases have achieved highly reliable on-time delivery (OTD) with short project lead-time (PLT) in multi-project environments. However, two obstacles have remained, blocking the implementation of CCPM to project management (PM) society. The first has been addressed by P...

BACKGROUND Widespread replication of effective prevention programs is unlikely to affect the incidence of adolescent delinquency, violent crime, and substance use until the quality of implementation of these programs by community-based organizations can be assured. METHODS This paper presents the results of a process evaluation employing qualitative and quantitative methods to assess the exte...

A prenatal care case-management program in Tennessee was evaluated to determine its effectiveness in improving the adequacy of prenatal care reducing the odds of preterm birth (gestation less than 37 weeks) and very low birth weight births (less than 1,500 g). The case-management program, Project HUG, included care provider referrals, visit scheduling, assistance with transportation and nutriti...

environmental protection is a key element in urban management. due to complex relationships between human and environment in metropolises the importance of environment is ever-increasing. in this paper the current situation of environment in tehran metropolis including air, water, biodiversity and human habitat along with the most crucial threats, their effect as well as the associated agencies...