An event procedure management to support decision-makers in prospective and real-time project management

Companies are faced with a more and more demanding market in a context in constant evolution. Their ability to win contracts and bring in innovative projects is often based on some specific resources and ability to use them by considering their evolution. So project managers must reliably know the resource requirements and evolution over the projects timelines. However, few guides, books or studies on project management deal with these aspects in risky projects. The aim of this article consist in presenting the decision support system we have implemented to help project managers. The various feasible solutions are generated and modeled in a decision tree, which is connected with a model for scenario evaluation. The manager is then able to evaluate, compare and choose the best way to control the level of project risk and feasibility of the planning. Finally, a study illustrates the complexity of the decision making problem and validates our approach.