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Project engineering
About: Project engineering is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 609 publications have been published within this topic receiving 8869 citations.
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27 Jul 1997TL;DR: In this article, the authors aim to provide general recommendations regarding project management based on the assumption that the project success depends on a relatively small number of variables -the so-called success factors.
Abstract: During recent years, project management has been firmly established as a concept for organizing extraordinary, innovative as well as strategic endeavors. However, still many of these projects fail. What are the recommendations that research can provide to practising managers? This paper aims to provide general recommendations regarding project management. This effort is based on the assumption that the project success depends on a relatively small number of variables-the so-called success factors.
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TL;DR: The metrics effort within NASA's Mission Operations Directorate has helped managers and engineers better understand their processes and products and the toolkit helps ensure consistent data collection across projects and increases the number and types of analysis options available to project personnel.
Abstract: The amount of code in NASA systems has continued to grow over the past 30 years. This growth brings with it the increased risk of system failure caused by software. Thus, managing the risks inherent in software development and maintenance is becoming a highly visible and important field. The metrics effort within NASA's Mission Operations Directorate has helped managers and engineers better understand their processes and products. The toolkit helps ensure consistent data collection across projects and increases the number and types of analysis options available to project personnel. The decisions made on the basis of metrics analysis have helped project engineers make decisions about project and mission readiness by removing the inherent optimism of "engineering judgment". >
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TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual model of the software project management process that relates to actual project performance is presented, and an investigation that seeks to establish the feasibility of the conceptual model and examine its associated hypotheses is presented.
Abstract: A conceptual model of the software project management process that relates to actual project performance is presented. The model is described, and an investigation that seeks to establish the feasibility of the conceptual model and examine its associated hypotheses is presented. The exploratory feasibility analysis described here is based upon questionnaire and interview data from 24 projects. Assisted by this data, the factors of adversity that may be present in the project environment and the factors of intrinsic management skills that may be put forth to manage and overcome this adversity are characterized. These are related to both project technical and cost/schedule performance through an interviewing variable referred to as residual management power. >
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TL;DR: The SCERT (synergistic contingency evaluation and response techniques) project as discussed by the authors is an attempt to provide a systematic approach to the planning and financial evaluation of large engineering projects involving significant risks.
Abstract: Describes the current status of SCERT (synergistic contingency evaluation and response techniques). SCERT is an attempt to provide a systematic approach to the planning and financial evaluation of large engineering projects involving significant risks. Its mathematical basis is a decision tree/semi-Markov process representation of a project. This basis is integrated with qualitative risk assessment procedures. The emphasis is preplanning positive responses to potential contingencies, the need to get approximate answers to the right questions, and the need to integrate specialist expert opinion of various kinds and more general seasoned intuition.
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TL;DR: A new model is proposed and the usefulness of the model for real-time activity scheduling in a resource-constrained project environment is demonstrated and the implications of this model and the analysis it supports are discussed.
Abstract: Traditional models for project management have not adequately incorporated a number of factors that are important for resource allocation. This paper describes the use of Petri nets to facilitate resource allocation in projects under some conditions commonly encountered in practice. Petri nets provide a powerful formalism for representing and analyzing concurrent systems. To date, however, very little has been done to integrate this graphical and mathematical tool with the area of project management. Petri net models can be used to analyze interdependencies, criticality, substitution, conflicting resource priorities and variations in the availability of resources. This paper proposes a new model and demonstrates the usefulness of the model for real-time activity scheduling in a resource-constrained project environment. The model has been computerized using the C language, and a simple project is chosen as an example to provide step-by-step explanations of the simulation carried out. This paper also discusses the implications of the model and the analysis it supports.
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