Investigation of the effectiveness of goal programming in Project Management Activities

Abstract

The regulation of objectives that are inconsistent with the use of all related resources through the organization is the principal project management (PM) work. In present situations, the Project Manager is responsible for managing multiple conflicting objectives, these objectives are normally fuzzy owing to information will be insufficient and unavailable. At the earliest stage, it was difficult for the decision maker to develop a plan to shorten the total completion time, minimize the project total cost and maximize the quality of the project. The aim of this study is to compare a combination of fuzzy goal programming and grey linear programming techniques and multi objective integer grey programming model of programming with multiple fuzzy objectives (programming with fuzzy objectives) which is applied to a project management problem. This study provides a systematic decision-making framework for resolving PM decision issues with multiple goals in uncertain environments. A real-world numerical example is used to compare the different techniques in this study. Finally, the results determine the best method that gives the best combination of the parameters used for project activities. Results demonstrate that this model can be implemented as an effective tool.