A decision support model for project manager assignments 2.0

Assigning the right project manager to the right project is one of the critical success factors of an organization's mission. The objective of a project in an organization is always to maximize the gain or profit of the organization. This gain can be maximized through cautious resource allocation of an organization to its different projects. Dr. Patanakul, Dr. Anderson and Dr. Milosevic developed an optimization model that can be applied in an organization for this cautious resource allocation. The aim of this model is to align the project assignments made with the strategic goals of the organization by matching the competencies of projects managers to different project requirements. However, the limitation of this model is that Project managers' workload is not balanced along the project life cycle. The objective of this paper is to overcome this limitation by extending the model and adding the element of time dimension to it. This extended model would assist top management in balancing and forecasting the workload of each project manager in a given time period.

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