In an IT company, a project manager needs to assign four projects to four different and independent
Question:
In an IT company, a project manager needs to assign four projects to four different and independent teams. Any team can handle only one project and vice-versa. Based on his past experience, he has developed the following table that gives information about the time (in months) that is likely to be taken by each of the teams to complete different projects. Set up a linear programming model to determine the optimal assignment of projects to teams so as to complete all the projects in the least possible time with
a) parallel processing of projects
b) No parallel processing
Team
Project 1 2 3 4 1 10 9 7 8 2 6 8 10 12 3 12 15 6 9 4 9 11 13 10
Statistics The Art and Science of Learning from Data
ISBN: 978-0321755940
3rd edition
Authors: Alan Agresti, Christine A. Franklin