Introduction to Project Management

The examples in this chapter describe several scenarios that illustrate the different ways in which the project management procedures can be used to define, manage, and monitor projects. As described in the previous sections, the SAS System can be used to create comprehensive Decision Support systems or project management systems, in particular, using the procedures described in this book. You can also create web-based project management or scheduling systems where the browser is used to display schedules and resource usage information that is updated using the CPM procedure’s scheduling engine.

One such example of a web-based application is the "Enterprise-Wide Resource Management" (EWRM) demo, which uses several of the concepts described in this chapter and illustrated in the examples throughout this book to schedule the tasks that are required for the maintenance of aircraft engines and other aircraft components at a hypothetical service facility.

Note: The EWRM web demo is a client-server application driven from your desktop and running at SAS Institute in Cary, NC. You can access the demo at the following URL: http://support.sas.com/sassamples/demos/supplychain/demos/ewrm/ewrm_index.html. The graphs and reports in the demo have not been saved but are calculated on demand; this means that they change dynamically as the data used to calculate them change. This demo requires Microsoft Internet Explorer.