Agile-similar approach based on project crashing to manage research projects

Abstract

Research projects are an integral part of each university’s activity. Recently many theorists and practitioners have started to consider how such projects should be managed (e.g. [13]). They analyse if it is better to use traditional project management (TPM) or agile project management (APM). In this paper we propose agile-similar approach based on project crashing and stakeholder analysis to manage research project. First we present a theoretical introduction. Then we present a model for the proposed approach and its Linear Programing (LP) implementation. Finally we present an example of using the proposed model and we formulate conclusions.