SYDPIM integration of SD and PERT/CPM tools: Assessing Fagan Analysis in a large-scale software project.

摘要

While Project Management is crucial to many organisations, world-wide surveys continue to show major over-runs. The causes are complex issues of human and strategic nature. System Dynamics gathers the requisites to address these issues. However, so far studies and practical applications have been implemented in total isolation from the traditional PERT/CPM models, with no attempt at exploring their relationship and formal integration. The author has developed a formal integrated methodology, called SYDPIM, which includes a model development and validation method, a process framework to articulate the combined use of the two models, and formal links of data and structure. It provides a rigorous framework for the formal exchange of data and structural readjustment of the models. In this paper, SYDPIM is briefly describe and is illustrated using a real scenario from a software project: half-way through system design, management needs to decide whether Fagan inspections is worth implementing.