Start networking and exchanging professional insights

Register now or log in to join your professional community.

Follow

Resource leveling.

 

A. Attempts to reduce resource requirements within a constraint on project duration

B. Smoothes out resource requirements by rescheduling activities within their float time.

C. Allocates resources to activities to find shortest schedule within fixed resource limits.

D. Smooths out resource requirements by substituting activities with unassigned resources.

E.1) Smoothes out resource requirements by rescheduling activities within their float time, or2) Attempts to reduce resource requirements within a constraint on project duration

 

user-image
Question added by Muhammad Farooq , QA-QC MANAGER , AL Bawani contracting co.
Date Posted: 2017/01/21
ZULFIQAR ALI
by ZULFIQAR ALI , Planning/ Project Control Manager , King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology

As the main aim of resource leveling is to allocate resource efficiently, so that the project can be completed in the given time period. I think it will be great to find shorted schedule within fixed resources.

Option C will be correct answer

shahryar Abdollahzadeh
by shahryar Abdollahzadeh , Construction Project Manager , Sabir international

we plan to adjust time schedule with resource of projects,mainly at first step we use floating times to reduce and blance resources, and in advanced stages we suggest some durations in time schedule to create floating times for an activity.

Nazar Bazaraa
by Nazar Bazaraa , Senior Structural Engineer , HS-Group

Answer E is optimum answer with 2 option flexibility

Mohamed Ali
by Mohamed Ali , Sr. Project coordinator , Al Borj

Smoothes out resource requirements by rescheduling activities within their float time

SHAIKH NISAR MOHAMED  SHARIF
by SHAIKH NISAR MOHAMED SHARIF , Project Head , AL Fattan Contracting & Properties Management

My answer Option: A (Attempts to reduce resource requirements within a constraint on project duration.

mamoun mokhtar
by mamoun mokhtar , general manager , albyan technical foungary

i think we have to play on activity scheduling option b

Tariq Halawani
by Tariq Halawani , Project Control Manager , Metal Artwork Saudi Co. (Bin Laden Group)

Resource Leveling is a technique in which start and finish dates are adjusted baced on resource constraints with the goal of balancing demand for resources with the available supply.

i believe E is closest to the correct answer.