Written by Robin Nicklas
Robin Nicklas is a project management consultant and educator. Since 2001, he has trained project managers in the aerospace, financial, telecommunications, government, and software sectors. Prior to teaching, he spent twenty years in information systems and technology, twelve of which he managed software development at large information service companies.
Since 2003, he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in project management at the University of Washington in Seattle, as well as MS Project courses at Bellevue College Continuing Education since 2011.
Robin is a former president of the PMI Puget Sound Chapter in Seattle and a certified PMP. He can be contacted through his website, robinnicklas.com.
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Sam Huffman
Masterful treatment of criticality!
Robin Nicklas
Kevin,
Thank you for your question.
The data presented in this article were generated using programs coded in Python and written for the purpose of illustrating the differences in simulation results between resource unconstrained and constrained schedules.
There are several add-in programs for MS Project that run schedule and cost simulations. However, to my knowledge, these add-ins do not take resource constraints into account. The simulation results generated by these add-ins are based on the unconstrained schedule or, at best, only a single instance from the set of resource-feasible schedules.