Track: Project Management
Abstract
The issue of scheduling interrelated product development activities is important and of particular concern to project managers. To help them with this issue, several studies have proposed methods for scheduling interrelated activities. However, these methods are of limited practicality because of their complexity and because they require input information that is difficult to obtain in the beginning stage of product development. This paper introduces interpretive structural modelling (ISM) technique as an alternative tool for scheduling interrelated activities. For the demonstration, the technique is applied to real-world project data adapted from the literature. The results show that ISM can be considered as a promising practical tool for scheduling interrelated activities.