Theme:Management decision making

Context

This theme provides learners on how to practically optimise management decision making in a systems environment through the application of scheduling theory.

Competencies

Expected competencies after study of this theme are:

• How to recognise when a system is operating under constraints
• How to use scheduling theory to optimise delivery

Key Topics

• Project versus systems optimisation
• Identifying bottlenecks and resource constraints
• Efficient scheduling theory
  • Overhead
  • Pre-emption
  • Context switching
  • Deadlock