An Enhanced Planning and Scheduling Approach Suited to the Requirements of Collaborative Project Management

Authors

  • Mathieu Baudin European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland. Laboratoire de Conception de Produits et Innovation, ENSAM ParisTech, Paris, France Switzerland
  • Pierre Bonnal CERN Switzerland Switzerland
  • Bertrand Nicquevert European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland Switzerland
  • Jean-Michel Ruiz Laboratoire de Conception de Produits et Innovation, ENSAM ParisTech, Paris, France, École Centrale Marseille, Marseille, France France

Keywords:

collaborative planning and scheduling, collaborative project management, interventions in large scale facilities

Abstract

Collaborations imply interdisciplinary work, and require exchanges, communication and compromise. When managing a project, collaboration will lead to complex interactions and feedback between tasks. The planning and scheduling phase of a project already benefits from a large number of tools, mostly based on the Precedence Di- agramming Methods (PDM) and its precedence links. This linear vision of how a project shall be planned and sched- uled does not fit with the consequences of collaborative work, and unfortunately, no mainstream method for project planning and scheduling does. This work proposes a collaborative planning and scheduling framework based on gathering and handling of temporal constraints through a qualitative temporal algebra, and then on matrix based task-sequence optimization. It provides equal treatment to all constraints, highlights conflicts and propagates the effect of a constraint modification into the existing plan, thus taking coupling, feedback and rework into account.

Author Biographies

  • Mathieu Baudin, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland. Laboratoire de Conception de Produits et Innovation, ENSAM ParisTech, Paris, France Switzerland

    I was born in 1988, and graduated in 2011 from the French Engineering school Centrale Marseille. This degree is equivalent to a masters degree in engineering. In 2011 as well, I graduated from the University Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseille III in a masters degree in Theoretical Chemistry, and Analytical Chemistry for which I performed a six month master thesis at the University of Nottingham in translational medical imaging, with Prof. Thomas Meersmann.

    I am now performing my PhD at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, in industrial engineering. My grad school is at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers ParisTech (ENSAM ParisTech, Paris, France). I am working on intervention models suited to collaborative intervention planning and scheduling, and their optimization based on radiation protection data.

  • Pierre Bonnal, CERN Switzerland Switzerland

    Senior Project Engineer with the Office of the Director of Accelerators and Technology, involved in providing project management support and advices to projects (as from Sept. 2010) > Technical Coordinator for the PS Booster Upgrade Project > CERN's Scientist-in-charge for the PURESAFE Initial Training Network > Member of the CERN A&T Sector's Maintenance Management Initiative > Member of the CERN's Corporate Risk Management Initiative. Senior lecturer Université de Lausanne / HEC School of Business February 2007 – Present (6 years 4 months) Instructor of the "R&D Management" course (M.Sc. in Management program) Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse Ph.D., Industrial Systems Management 1997 – 2001 Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille III) D.E.A., Industrial Project Management 1989 – 1990 Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières M.Sc., Project Management 1989 – 1990 Ecole centrale de Marseille M.Sc., Industrial Eng. 1988 – 1990 Ecole nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tarbes M.Sc., Mechanical Eng. 1983 – 1988 Interests: Project management and governance, Front-end project management (feasibility analyses), Project risk management, Quality management, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Innovation and R&D management and governance, Corporate strategy and governance.

  • Bertrand Nicquevert, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland Switzerland

    Bertrand Nicquevert is a Project Engineer at CERN. He is a member of the ATLAS collaboration, who designed, built and now operates a giant detector which discovered the Higgs boson in 2012. He was a member of the technical coordination, he was in charge of the geometrical integration, led the technical design office and was the project leader of the main ATLAS structure. He then joined the LHC installation coordination, worked on the design of the next generation of linear colliders, and later on, was work package holder for the integration and design of the MedAustron project for oncological hadrontherapy. He is now a member of CERN Project Support Office. In addition to his function of engineer, Bertrand Nicquevert has taken part of various research programs, in the field of history and sociology of science (with Peter Galison from Harvard University), and of design research, mainly in close collaboration with the Grenoble University, where he received a PhD on Managing interfaces within complex projects

  • Jean-Michel Ruiz, Laboratoire de Conception de Produits et Innovation, ENSAM ParisTech, Paris, France, École Centrale Marseille, Marseille, France France

    Jean-Michel RUIZ (60) has a chemical engineering degree from ENSIC (Nancy, France) and a petrochimistry degree from Marseilles University. He obtained his “Doctorat ès Sciences” from Marseilles University in 1979. Becoming Associate Professor, then Professor in an Engineering School (ENSSPICAM) in Marseilles University, he joined Ecole Centrale of Marseilles. During this thirty four years, he tought Chemical Engineering, then Industrial Engineering and especially Project mangement, Systems Analysis, Engineering Economy and Chemiometrics. As a member of LCPI (Laboratoire de conception de produits innovants in Paris (ENSAM)) under the direction of Professor Améziane Aoussat, his research is focussed on Project Management and he has managed more than 20 Doctorates in this field with students from all around the world, especially from Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Madagascar, Russia which has allowed a wide approach of this problematic and has worked on five European Contracts. More recently, a cooperation with the CERN in Geneva has allowed this research. He is the author or editor of books at Ellis Horwood Limited – John Willey and Lavoisier Editeurs.

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An Enhanced Planning and Scheduling Approach Suited to the Requirements of Collaborative Project Management. (2022). The Journal of Modern Project Management, 1(2). https://journalmodernpm.com/manuscript/index.php/jmpm/article/view/122

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