Decision support for personnel and resources management in multi-project environments

Decision making in project management requires accurate and automated support to monitor and control the development process. Managers must make reliable schedule predictions and optimize personnel utilization. They thus must be able to dynamically evaluate whether the resources assigned to a job are sufficient and whether the organization structure is adequate to meet the scheduled deadlines. To support managers in these tasks, scientists at ISTI-CNR are studying the potential of classical performance engineering and propose the Propean (Project Performance Analysis) methodology.