Lessons Learned from Applying the Individuals Control Charts to Monitoring Autocorrelated Project Performance Data
Publication: Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 142, Issue 5
Abstract
The well-known earned value technique measures and evaluates project performance. It uncovers schedule and cost deviations from the baseline plan. However, it is not established to determine acceptable levels of deviations from the baseline. This study applies the Shewhart individuals control charts to overcome this limitation; the charts monitor trends in the project performance behavior and allow them to be detected before the project deviates much from the baseline plan. The study statistically monitors several well-known earned value indexes of a construction project, where the data are autocorrelated and nonnormally distributed. The investigated case showed that the individuals control charts enhance capability of the earned value technique. The authors concluded that implementing the developed tool together with the traditional tools noticeably improves the project controlling scheme and provides more information on project progress. The study extends a previous study in which only independent data were investigated.
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Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank Mr. Hamed Keyvanfar for his generous support in providing the project information and progress reports, and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on the first version of the paper.
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Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 142 • Issue 5 • May 2016
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Received: Feb 19, 2015
Accepted: Aug 28, 2015
Published online: Dec 23, 2015
Published in print: May 1, 2016
Discussion open until: May 23, 2016
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