Software projects are difficult to control given their complexity, intangibility and dynamic nature. Control theory has been applied in several domains in management. Control theory can provide a useful framework for understanding the learning and adaptive processes involved in managing software projects. Software project management can be understood as a goal driven activity with a hierarchy o...

The dynamic nature of projects and the fact that they are carried out in changing environments, justify the need for their periodic monitoring and control. Collection of information about the performance of projects at control points costs money. The corrective actions that may need to be taken to bring the project in line with the plan also costs money. On the other hand, penalties are usually...

We develop a bicriteria model for the resource allocation problem in PERT networks, in which the total direct costs of the project as the first objective, and the mean of project completion time as the second objective are minimized. The activity durations are assumed to be independent random variables with either exponential or Erlang distributions, in which the mean of each activity duration ...

background: evaluating the effectiveness of reengineering moheb (interventions and sociopsychological supports in disasters) project helps the managers of the welfare organization have feedback on the status of community empowerment against disasters. in this regard, this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of reengineering moheb project to improve the knowledge, attitude, and performanc...