The dynamic progress method : using advanced simulation to improve project planning and management /: using advanced simulation to improve project planning and management. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: J. Chris White and Robert M. Sholtes.
• Authors: White, J. Chris; Sholtes, Robert M
• Contents: Introduction; Background of Research; Getting Good Projects for the Research; Results of the DARPA SBIR Effort; Example: Large Defense Contract; Basic Issues with Microsoft Project Algorithms (and the CPM); Direct Comparisons between Microsoft Project and pmBLOX; What Does This Mean for Project Managers?; References; ; Why "Dynamic Progress Method?"; Introduction; Understanding Systems and System Complexity; Classes of Business Models; System Complexity and Project Complexity; Introducing the DPM; References; ; The Current Status of Project Management; Introduction; Project Failure Rates Are Greater Than Zero; Larger Projects Suffer More Than Smaller Projects; Some Project Failures Are Preventable; The Need for a Revolutionary Project Planning and Management Tool; References; ; Critical Path Method and Earned Value Management; Introduction; CPM Refresher; Some Comments on Program Evaluation and Review Technique; Benefits and Disadvantages of PERT/CPM; Some Comments on Critical Chain; Uncertainty and Monte Carlo Analysis; Additional Issues with PERT/CPM; EV Refresher; References; ; The New Approach of Dynamic Progress Method; Introduction; A Simple Project Framework for Consideration; DPM and PERT/CPM: Different Sides of the Same Coin; CPM and System Dynamics; References; ; Overview of the Dynamic Progress Method Simulation Model; Introduction; Basic Task Structure; Resource Productivity; Management Corrective Actions; Consequences of Corrective Actions; A Final Note on the DPM Model; ; Overview of pmBLOX; Introduction; Installing and Running pmBLOX; Example 1—Creating Your First Project Plan; Example 2—Defining a Task Resource; Example 3—Productivity Impacts; Example 4—Varying Productivity Impacts; Example 5—Responding to Reduced Productivity; Example 6—Multiple Task Resources; Example 7—The Role of Scope Mode; Example 8—Task Dependencies; Example 9—Working with Materials; Final Comments; ; Advanced Capabilities of Dynamic Progress Method; Introduction; Example Microsoft Project File; Importing a Microsoft Project XML File into pmBLOX; Accelerating the Project; Schedule and Cost Trade-Offs
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 658.40352; Project management -- Data processing
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466504387
• Related ISBNs: 9781466504370
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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