A review of methods, techniques and tools for project planning and control

Pellerin, Robert; Perrier, Nathalie

doi:10.1080/00207543.2018.1524168

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“…Firstly, there is a debate between focusing on outputs and outcomes. As we have seen from the literature cited earlier, there is still a considerable focus in the literature on what is often known as the iron triangle of cost, schedule and quality of delivery or project-management success (Zwikael and Globerson 2004;Varajão and Cruz-Cunha 2013;Pellerin and Perrier 2018;Jeang 2015), whereas the importance of the product and service produced (Carvalho and Rabechini 2015) or the outcome and benefits (Laursen and Svejvig 2016;Hodgson and Cicmil 2006;Jensen et al 2016) is widely recognised elsewhere especially in the delivery of complex government projects (IPA 2017c).…”

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A cross-national comparison of public project benefits management practices – the effectiveness of benefits management frameworks in application

Williams

Bourne

et al. 2019

Production Planning & Control

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A Cross-national Comparison of Public Project Benefits Management Practices-The Effectiveness of Benefits Management Frameworks in Application Benefits are the principal reason why an organisation may seek to enact change through programmes and projects. The discipline of identification, definition, planning, tracking and realisation of benefits is recognised to be instrumental in achieving organisational strategy. In this study, we describe the results of a cross-national comparison of public sector benefits management (BM) practices in Australia, Canada, the UK, and the USA. It explores 'BM practices in action', considering to what extent 'espoused' or 'mandated' frameworks are actually practised and perceived by their users. Employing qualitative analysis, semi-structured interview data were analysed from 46 participants with experience in sponsoring, managing and/or reviewing government projects. The results expose considerable variation in the adoption and standardisation of BM frameworks from inter and intragovernmental perspectives. We evidence a strong focus on benefits identification across the data set, specifically at the outset (the business case stage seeking project approval) and observe deterioration in focus as the project or programme progresses through the authorisation (or assurance) approval gates towards close-out and operations. The results further emphasise the prominence of political interest, leadership buy-in, a benefits-driven culture, and a transparent benefits reporting mechanism in the implementation of 'effective' BM frameworks.

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Section: Output and Outcomesmentioning

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A cross-national comparison of public project benefits management practices – the effectiveness of benefits management frameworks in application

Williams

Bourne

et al. 2019

Production Planning & Control

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“…The commonly used control methodology earned value management (EVM) [ 18 , 19 ], originally developed for cost management, cannot be applied in this study, as it forecasts the project schedule by measuring project progress in monetary terms [ 20 ]. Moreover, EVM measurements always converge and result in perfect performance, even if the project is behind schedule.…”

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Project Management Monitoring Based on Expected Duration Entropy

Kashi

Rozenes

Ben‐Gal

2020

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Projects are rarely executed exactly as planned. Often, the actual duration of a project’s activities differ from the planned duration, resulting in costs stemming from the inaccurate estimation of the activity’s completion date. While monitoring a project at various inspection points is pricy, it can lead to a better estimation of the project completion time, hence saving costs. Nonetheless, identifying the optimal inspection points is a difficult task, as it requires evaluating a large number of the project’s path options, even for small-scale projects. This paper proposes an analytical method for identifying the optimal project inspection points by using information theory measures. We search for monitoring (inspection) points that can maximize the information about the project’s estimated duration or completion time. The proposed methodology is based on a simulation-optimization scheme using a Monte Carlo engine that simulates potential activities’ durations. An exhaustive search is performed of all possible monitoring points to find those with the highest expected information gain on the project duration. The proposed algorithm’s complexity is little affected by the number of activities, and the algorithm can address large projects with hundreds or thousands of activities. Numerical experimentation and an analysis of various parameters are presented.

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“…O planejamento e controle são etapas críticas no processo de gerenciamento de projetos (Pellerin & Perrier, 2018 (Tonchia, 2018).…”

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Análise de importância e desempenho das ferramentas de gerenciamento de projetos em agroindústria

Nardi¹,

Bulegon²,

Barichello³

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O estudo tem por objetivo avaliar ferramentas que auxiliam as empresas no gerenciamento de projetos, verificando sua importância e desempenho pelo grau de utilização. A pesquisa se trata de survey case, realizada em uma agroindústria, que mantém rotinas de gerenciamento de projetos. A amostra é composta por gerentes de unidades e membros de suas equipes, que possuem ligação a gerenciamento de projetos. Para medir a confiabilidade das respostas utilizou-se Alfa de Cronbach e, a Correlação de Pearson para verificar as relações das variáveis. A Importance-Performance Matrix, de Slack (1994), foi utilizada para apontar as ferramentas que ficaram no quadrante “zona de urgência”, ou seja, com maior importância e menor desempenho. Os resultados indicam que houve significância nas variáveis aquisição com riscos e integração, comunicação com recursos humanos e conhecimento com integração. A pesquisa demonstra, pela ótica dos gestores, as ferramentas com menor e maior lacuna entre o grau de desempenho, por meio da utilização, e da importância mesmo que não seja utilizada na sua rotina de trabalho, entre os grupos de identificação. O método pode ser utilizado em empresas que gerenciam seus projetos por meio de ferramentas, identificando onde é necessário alocar maior e menor investimento em seus processos, seja em ferramentas ou em pessoal.

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A review of methods, techniques and tools for project planning and control

Cited by 76 publications

References 69 publications

A cross-national comparison of public project benefits management practices – the effectiveness of benefits management frameworks in application

A cross-national comparison of public project benefits management practices – the effectiveness of benefits management frameworks in application

Project Management Monitoring Based on Expected Duration Entropy

Análise de importância e desempenho das ferramentas de gerenciamento de projetos em agroindústria

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