C k Is the state of technology constant and reflects requirements that impede the development of the program. The exact value of C k for a specific task can be computed from the historical data of the organization developing it. Putnam proposed that optimal staff develop on a project should follow the Rayleigh curve. Only a small number of engineers are required at the beginning of a plan to carry out planning and specification tasks.
As the project progresses and more detailed work are necessary, the number of engineers reaches a peak. After implementation and unit testing, the number of project staff falls. C k Is the state of technology constant and reflects constraints that impede the progress of the program. From the above expression, it can be easily observed that when the schedule of a project is compressed, the required development effort as well as project development cost increases in proportion to the fourth power of the degree of compression.
It means that a relatively small compression in delivery schedule can result in a substantial penalty of human effort as well as development cost. For example, if the estimated development time is 1 year, then to develop the product in 6 months, the total effort required to develop the product and hence the project cost increases 16 times. JavaTpoint offers too many high quality services. Mail us on [email protected] , to get more information about given services. Please mail your requirement at [email protected] Duration: 1 week to 2 week.
Software Engineering. Coding Programming Style Structured Programming. Next Topic Risk Management. Reinforcement Learning. Customer satisfaction. Basic Six Sigma Presentation. Reliability growth models. Six sigma concept. Software reliability. SQA Profiles. Related Books Free with a 30 day trial from Scribd. Related Audiobooks Free with a 30 day trial from Scribd. Elizabeth Howell. Rayleigh model 1. GRAA 1 2. General Form : The number of defects y is dependant on the attributes x of the product and the process by which it is produced, plus some error e due to unknowns which inherently exist.
It is a dynamic reliability model. GRAA 2 3. GRAA 3 4. Assuming the d f removal effectiveness remains unchanged, then A i h defect l ff i i h d h a higher curve more defects during development means a higher defect injection rate and hence a higher field defect rate.
GRAA Given the same error injection rate, if more defects are discovered and removed earlier then fewer will remain in later stages and the field quality will be better.
Curves that peak earlier have smaller areas at the tail, the GA phase. GRAA 4 5. Interestingly, the cumulative labor profile that emerged was S-shaped and so represents a significant improvement in the theoretical modeling of projects, which to date has been almost entirely based on linear theories.
At any time, only a subset of activities can be worked on, the so-called visible activities. Therefore, management should assign resources only to visible activities because assigning resources to activities not ready to be worked on is clearly wasteful. The proposed theory is based on finish-to-start constraints. However, a network structure can also be built using other constraints e. It is a topic for further research to determine how to incorporate other types of constraints into the model.
A theory is nice to have, of course, but the interesting question is, "Is it practical? The theory presented here is no more complex than the PNR curve, which is widely used for estimation and tracking. It also provides insights into many areas of project management. Table 1 summarizes Koskela and Howell's proposed goals and their possible satisfaction by the theory proposed here.
We compared our proposed theory to a well-known, real-world project and the results were encouraging. Specific project data were measured early on and the theory provided accurate estimates for the total cost and final schedule. Therefore, we validated the predictions of our theoretical model against a real-world project and the agreement between theory and practice provided a preliminary empirical validation of the theory and added weight to the idea that it is possible to create a theory of project management that has immediate practical benefits.
We have validated the theory against one project, which, while interesting and encouraging, leaves the open the question of the theory's general applicability. More research is required to answer this question. Our theory should also support rational control of projects during execution by determining the impact of proposed network changes on the system's observables. Therefore, a future research goal is for the plan to be derived systematically from the network structure and, hopefully, automatically.
We suggest that during the execution of real world projects, it is the network structure that changes and that the cost and schedule impacts follow. While plans are developed before execution, the key is to recognize that the network structure is an important entity. When the network changes, it is conceivable that tools can automatically derive an updated plan. For example, the theory predicts how a change to the branching ratio during execution will affect the cost and schedule.
The proposed theory might also improve project management processes. For example, an improved appreciation of the importance of the network structure suggests that more attention be paid to it during scope development.
That may lead to better insights into cost and schedule estimation and more effective control during execution. Several issues might be explored in future research efforts. First, the effect of uncertainty in costs and schedules, which results in noise in the data, will affect the accuracy of the model's predictions. When such noise is a factor, does the current model perform better than existing models?
Second, one might explore whether the S-shaped curve is more effective than the currently used linear versions for project estimation and control. Finally, it would be interesting to include the dynamic nature of project management, i. In conclusion, we demonstrated that there is a fundamental relation between a project's network structure the inter-related nature of project activities and its labor rate profile, which, in turn, determines the cost and schedule.
The proposed model also informs managers about how to calibrate projects in terms of observables, such as the total cost and the final schedule.
We proposed a theory, measured observables, validated the theory by comparing its predictions to a real-world project, and used the theory to guide future improvements. Our model is based on Parr , although we use a different approach to the tree dependencies that, we believe, is more applicable to project management.
We have also updated the terminology to modern project management language. The continuous form of 6 is:. If there is no scope creep, the project consists of a fixed number of activities to be completed.
As a result, eventually the entire project ends, with no further activities left to complete. We assume that it is efficient only to apply resources when there are activities to work on, i. This suggests that the rate at which labor can be usefully applied to the project is proportional to V k t.
When resources are applied in this optimal way, activities will be completed at a rate proportional to V k t , which implies,. The denominator of the left hand side is a quadratic expression in c t , which can be converted to partial fractions and integrated, giving:. That T is indeed the peak in the labor rate curve is easily proved by differentiating 15 twice and setting the result to zero.
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