Resource Management in Construction Project - Project Management

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Project management: Resource management in construction project
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Table of Contents
Introduction and Background..........................................................................................................2
Question 1........................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Modern theory on constraint management is helpful in solving the management of Slack..3
Question 2........................................................................................................................................6
2.1 Reasons of project behind schedule.......................................................................................6
Question 3......................................................................................................................................12
3.1 AON network activities for the contract..............................................................................12
3.2 Slack time for determining critical path..............................................................................14
3.3 Gantt chart...........................................................................................................................15
3.4 Resource histogram and resource loading...........................................................................18
3.5 Smoothed resource histogram..............................................................................................19
References......................................................................................................................................21

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Introduction and Background
The paper mainly reflects on resource management in construction projects for managing
the slack time. In practice, it is found that the managers generally take the entire responsibility
of that is mainly associated with the various project that are resource limited and additionally
they help in incorporating slack at the execution date of the project. In addition to this, the
managers also take different types of aggressive approach for effectively managing the project
slack within the schedule. They mainly utilize an early start schedule that further prohibits
utilization of slack on any activity as well as work package that is required to be used unless it is
authorized by the managers. Moreover, the progress of the project that is finished as well as
remaining time must be monitored quite effectively. There are a number of activities that
generally beat the estimated completion time which are reported such that the various succeeding
activities can generally start quite earlier and the time does not get wasted. Furthermore, the
entire intent of creating as well as saving the slack as the time buffers for the project completion
quite early by successfully covering the different types of issue that are linked with delay such
that it creep up on various project activities and thus delays the entire project due to which
completion date gets extended.
In this paper proper discussion is done on the modern theory on constraint management
that further helps in solving the slack management. In addition to this, the paper elaborates the
reason behind the problem of delay even though the project managers have a tendency of
overestimating the activity duration. Moreover, the paper construct AON network diagram, slack
time, resource histogram as well as presented smoothed resource histogram.

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Question 1
1.1 Modern theory on constraint management is helpful in solving the management of
Slack
According to Ji and Yao (2017), the modern theory of constraints mainly reflects on the
various factors that generally hinders the speed of the bottleneck. It is found that the throughout
procedure will generally increase when the entire bottleneck can be properly eliminated as well
as reinforced. It is found that the theory constraint mainly comprises of three different
components including an operational strategy that generally focuses on the steps for proper
improvement as well as on the thinking procedure for undertaking investigation. In addition to
this, proper focus on the performance measurement system for successfully assessing the work
as well as performance of the entire system for achieving the goal.
It is stated by Irfan et al. (2019) that most of the continuous improvement techniques are
generally dependent on the premise as well as on the overall performance of the system that is
mainly improved by successfully maximizing the efficiencies of the various system components
as well as processes. The various types of interventions are helpful in properly achieving the
local optima that further helps in affecting the entire performance of the organization. On the
other hand, it is opined by Doi and Shinoda (2018) that the theory of constraint is generally
opposed by the traditional continuous improvement-based technique which is mainly dependent
on the premise such that the performance of the entire system is generally get limited due to the
lowest performing related procedure within the entire system.
It is opined by Tenera and Rosas (2019) that the theory of constraint is mainly helpful in
providing a five-step procedure that is mainly known as the five focussing steps in order to
achieve continuous improvement within the entire performance of the system. It is identified that

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the five focussing steps that is mainly associated with the theory of constraints are properly
prescribed for the entire improvement procedure. In addition to this, the two different steps are
helpful in defining the system as well as assists in measuring the performance. In addition to this,
the theory of constraint is considered as one of the on-going improvement procedures that
generally starts by properly defining the goal of the system by determining the performance
metric for utilization that further helps in measuring the entire performance of the system that is
relative to its goal. By properly determining the goal of the system as well as the performance
metric that is used, the FFS procedure helps in determining the constraint of the system. It is
stated by Salvatelli, Piazza and Marinoni (2016) that the procedure that focuses on the
improvement of the performance generally determines the constraint. Moreover, proper emphasis
on the significance of organization’s constraint are determined for prioritizing them on the basis
of the impact that is present on the goal of the organization.
On the other hand, it is stated by Leseure and Alexander (2017) that slack is generally
considered as the total time that is needed within the network of the project which can be delayed
further without creating any type of delay for the other subsequent tasks for successful
completion date of the project. In addition to this, slack is considered as one of the hidden parts
of every project plan and therefore the management of slack can generally make a number of
differences so that the project team can be able to execute the plan of the project (White,
Grierson and Wodehouse 2017). The various activities which are situated on the line of the
critical path generally does not have slack and thus any of the task that gets delayed. However,
the tasks that are not present on the critical path can cause delay within the project so that the
final completion date of the project gets extended. The modern theory of constraint management
is generally considered to be helpful in managing the project slack.

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According to Lin et al. (2019), the project managers mainly considers slack as one of the
measures for properly scheduling flexibility with the various activities of the project. It is found
that when the resource-based constraint appears as this information needs to be calculated as well
as analyzed quite properly. It is found that previous studies on the effect of constraints and
slacks are resolved by properly operationalize the resource slack as well as constraint in such a
way that it properly concealed the various types of underlying complexities as well as dynamics.
It is found that proper demonstration of the perceived resource position is helpful in properly
influencing the entrepreneurial decision making as well as creativity by effectively drawing on in
-depth case studies (Soetanto and Jack 2018). The position of the resources is needed to be
perceived, transient as well as multidimension which helps in reflecting the entrepreneur for
experiencing the resource constraint as well as slack quite simultaneously. The influence that is
created on the perceived resource position that it is related with the decision making is dependent
on individual as well as resource position. These types of findings that are mainly achieved
mainly helps in linking the resources with the various ingenuity of the organization in order to
explain the perceived resource-based position that is helpful in influencing the entire decision
making.
It is found that there are a number of ways that can be utilize in order to deal with the
theory of constraint as well as slack. By considering the resource constraint and resource slack, it
is found that then the resource falls short then the entrepreneurs generally need to lower as well
as eliminate the various resource related demand for coping internally and for continuing for
operating under the constrained condition (Amiri et al. 2018). The information that is associated
with internal coping generally implies on the proper selection among the different types of
effects that can be established by proper set of resources whereas the acquisition of the external