Formulation of a Parabolic Resource Profile of Manpower Requirement Using Various Empirical Formulae of Resources Levelling

Resource levelling is amid the top concerns in project management. Due to the improper resource selection profile front to increase the number of release and rehire also idle time of resources which facade the undesirable resources. In this paper, improvements are anticipated to the resource levelling and allocation profile like parabolic instead of rectangular by considering the activities such as stretching, shifting, splitting and compressing (i.e., without changing project duration) as in the rectangular resource profile, the resource demand is considered to be uniform, which leads to the wasting of resources. One of the major advantages of the parabolic profile is its minimizing the resource requirement. The resource requirement towards the project run increases and peak over a period then run down towards the end of the project. An example problem was explained to measure the advantage of parabolic over rectangular while keeping the release and rehire also idle time, moment of resource requirement as minimum and entropy was nearby value of rectangular profile.