DESIGNING RESOURCES IN AGRICULTURAL SERVICES PROJECTS

Nowadays, project management reallocation of resources occurs still more often. The reason for this phenomenon usually lies in multitasking, overloading human resources, and the increase in under-pressure work on project tasks. Most commonly used methods are based on delaying the tasks or resource work on a task. However, these methods usually prolong the project’ due date. Other group of methods is based on resource substitutions and/or changes loading resource allocations. Such methods are very often ineffective due to the lack of substitutable under allocated resources in a project team. Another group of methods resolves resource conflicts by changing resource’s work contour on a task. Usually front/ back loaded contours, or early/ late peak contours are combined. This approach is quite effective but usually it does not affect human behaviour – human’s (resource’s) inclination to the Student Syndrome and to the behaviour based on Parkinson’s Law. In our paper we propose to exploit the Student Syndrome to resolve resource conflicts, to combine work contours based methods with variously shaped Student Syndrome derived from resource properties/characteristics. The quantification of various Student Syndrome shapes has already been given in previous papers. Now we try to improve and utilize this approach to reduce resource reallocations in projects.