Chair of Operations Management

We are welcoming you at the Chair of Operations Management, led by Prof. Dr. Rainer Kolisch. The teaching and research at the chair is centering on the application of Operations Research methods for analyzing and optimizing Operations Management problems. Current research topics are Scheduling, Routing, Health Care Operations, Airport Operations, Project Scheduling and Management, as well as Make-to-Order and Engineer-to-Order Operations.

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Tobias Lieberum completes his PhD successfully

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Tobias Lieberum has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Behavioral Aspects in Project Management: A Comparison of Agile and Waterfall Project Management”. In this thesis, Tobias has undertaken behavioral studies to compare project management with the waterfall and the scrum method. In the first study, he investigates the impact of the two methods on the project deliverables, in the second study he addresses the question how waterfall and scrum management impact the results of design and search tasks within projects. The committee consisting of Martin Grunow (chair), Rainer Kolisch and Michael Kurschilgen congratulated Tobias on his achievement and wished him all the best for his future career. Tobias is now co-founder and CEO of a tech startup.