Arvind Sathi, Thomas E. Morton, and Steven F. Roth

Introduction In the following two subsections, we present a brief discussion of the project management problem and how the Callisto project began. The Project Management Problem Innovation is important to the continued vitality of industry. New products and changes in existing products are occurring at an increasing rate, causing product lives to decrease. In order to maintain market share, companies are forced to reduce product development time and bring their products to the market as early as possible. A major portion of development involves performing and managing many activities. For example, in hightechnology industries such as the computer industry, thousands of activities must be performed to design and build the prototype of a new product. Poor performance or management of an activity can result in critical delays. If product development time is to be reduced, better management and technical support are crucial. The Callisto project was started at the initiative of Digital ...