A management oriented approach to reduce a project duration and its risk (variability)

Time Reduction for Completion of a Civil Engineering Construction Using Fuzzy Clustering Techniques

“…• The decision-maker adopts very sophisticated analytical methodologies (such as probabilistic analyses or optimization tools) that can be applied on real complex situation after extreme simplifications only (Hardie, 2001;Fatemi Ghomi and Rabani, 2003;Azaron et al, 2005;Mouhoub et al, 2011;Madadi and Iranmanesh, 2012); in this case, the final output is not correct either (Trietsch and Baker, 2012). It is robust, but the boundary conditions are different from the actual ones.…”

Task criticalness potential: A multiple criteria approach to project management

“…Fatemi Ghomi and Teimouri [18] and Madadi, Iranmanesh [26] present overview on some indices (mainly for stochastic networks) from the literature and proposed new one for quantification of the task importance. Mota and Almeida [30] proposes a multiple criteria decision model based on the ELECTRE TRI-C method to assign tasks in project management to priorities classes for helping project managers to focus on the proper tasks to ensure a successful project realization.…”

“…A different approach to a project network has been adopted by Madadi and Iranmanesh [26], who analyse the growth or decline in the criticality of tasks in the project during network structure changes. A number of preceding and following tasks have always a direct impact on the criticality of the task.…”

Setting tolerance limits for statistical project control using earned value management

“…If the project runs into trouble, the baseline schedule can be used to detect such problems and to trigger corrective actions. The construction of a project baseline schedule should go hand in hand with the development of a risk analysis [5] to detect the weak parts in the schedule. These two sources of information should therefore be used concurrently, both before and during the execution of the project.…”