ORIGINAL RESEARCH Considering Project Management Activities for Engineering Design Groups Abdollah Arasteh 1 Received: 7 December 2019 /Accepted: 12 October 2020 / # Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 Abstract This paper explores the topic of benefit-augmenting project planning. Accept that an array of potentially beneficial activities is available, but restricted usable resources may not allow each of them to be pursued. Benefit profiles of undertakings are considered to be non-expanding aspects of the time of completion of activities. Formal numerical models are comprehensive for the different variants of the problem, including those incorporating a third group arrangement view. The nature of the problem is analyzed, and the degree of information is improved with respect to the importance of the undertaking, in particular. Future exploration territories include the identification of the general conditions under which the prioritization of tasks can contribute to an optimal arrangement. The increase of better upper limits of the verifiable list program is additionally a hobby. It would also be exciting to understand how the mutual deviation data can be fed back to the preceding phases of the choice of mission and booking. Keywords Project management . Project selection . Design groups . Scheduling 1 Introduction The Webster word definition characterizes a project as an “ordered undertaking.” Extensive operations date back a few thousand years before, for example, the building of pyramids in Egypt, the Mayan sanctuaries in Central America, and the Great Wall of China. Truth be told, in comparison to the non-stop, repetitive activities that an agency or group undertakes, a project is usually a set of tasks/occupations/exercises that it undertakes to carry out with planned start dates and completion dates to achieve those objectives [18, 20, 22, 31, 34]. In this article, we are going to take a gander on a project arrangement and group arrangement problem. We must devote limited resources to the tasks chosen and plan for their execution. They also need to do away with people, such https://doi.org/10.1007/s43069-020-00037-w * Abdollah Arasteh arasteh@nit.ac.ir 1 Department of Industrial Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran SN Operations Research Forum (2020) 1: 30 Published online: 27 2020 October