Scheduling with MS Project: an add-in

The main objective of this research was to integrate scheduling techniques, documented in the literature, with Microsoft Project 2010, in order to help project managers’ deal with scheduling tasks in an easier and controlled way, and at the same time achieve better results. As far as we know, there is no information about the techniques or algorithms used by Microsoft Project to do the scheduling tasks so the possibility to select the algorithms to use gives a higher degree of control to the project manager. The initial hypothesis was that it is possible to get better results, concerning the project’s duration, using the studied techniques rather than the default scheduling technique used by Microsoft Project 2010, with an increased control.