Project Manager’s Decision Aid for a Radical Project Cycle Reduction
Publication: Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 133, Issue 6
Abstract
Currently there are no formal decision tools or guidelines to assist owners and project managers in choosing delivery systems and project strategies that would allow significant reductions in the project cycle time. The development of a decision aid that would allow a project manager to prioritize and apply project cycle reduction techniques would be a valuable tool for achieving project cycle time reduction in projects. This paper presents a new high performance project delivery system called “project manager’s game planner” (PMGP) designed to assist a decision maker in identifying and utilizing an optimal set of radical reduction techniques (RRTs) with the greatest potential for success in achieving cycle time reduction. Additionally, the PMGP can assist the user in identifying the top RRTs during any of the five project phases: preproject planning, design, material management, construction, and start-up. Most projects can utilize this PMGP to improve the project performance whether to achieve significant cycle time reduction or to simply achieve effective project execution.
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Acknowledgments
The writers would like to thank the Construction Industry Institute for sponsoring this research and also all the members of the Radical Reduction in Project Cycle Time research team who contributed greatly to the formulation of the research methodology and its products.
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Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 133 • Issue 6 • June 2007
Pages: 437 - 446
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© 2007 ASCE.
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Received: Apr 10, 2006
Accepted: Nov 30, 2006
Published online: Jun 1, 2007
Published in print: Jun 2007
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