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Do you realize this is a classic NP-problem?
(http://www.claymath.org/millennium/P_vs_NP/)
If someone was able to solve this one, they'd get a million dollars and
considerable fame among math and CS folks.
Though, given that the number of variables remains low enough (as in this case),
I'm sure a little computer script could be written for schedule generation.
On May 16, 2012 at 12:35 PM Eric Meyer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I have also tried to search for this 'holy grail'. Very interested in
> something that covers all the bases Kathy touched upon.
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> Oh PLEASE respond to the list. I can completely relate to this!
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> -----Original Message-----
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> For those of you who schedule education staff on a routine basis...this is for
> you.
> We spend an increasingly inordinate amount of time on schedules; daily,
> weekly; monthly. I am not speaking of when staff actually come into work but
> what they are assigned to do throughout the day. Our duties include, but are
> certainly not limited to, greeting groups, going on outreaches, operating our
> high cycle, presenting at our Shark and Ray touch tank, being present at
> specific exhibits, presenting reserved programming, presenting public
> programming, opening and closing certain areas of the museum, etc.
>
> We have 12 full time and 3-5 part time staff, 14 or so college work study
> staff and our volunteer staff to help us cover these items above and more.
>
> With so many moving parts and so much of it depending on who has been trained
> on what it can take many hours to make a weeks' worth of schedules. This falls
> to all of us, which takes a lot of time and coordination, but is concentrated
> to 2 or 3 managers. It is a frustrating job o the best of days and we have
> tried a few different ways of accomplishing this but always fall back to a
> SharePoint and hand written system.
>
> Do any of you know of scheduling software that has been successful in
> scheduling museum education staff that takes into account all of the human
> variables? I am hoping there is a system that once the time has been put in on
> the front end, all staff entered, all items that need to be covered on any
> given day and what each staff is trained on entered that it would then
> magically create a schedule that we could live with. Or is this magical system
> called a program administrator? Which of course is not in the budget. :)
>
> That isn't asking for too much is it? :)
>
> Kathy Fournier
> Vice President of Education
> McWane Science Center
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