The Dynamic Progress Method: Using Advanced Simulation to Improve Project Planning and Management

ISBN-13: 9781032179742 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 240 str.

J. Chris White; Robert M. Sholtes

Opis

The product of nearly a decade of work, this revolutionary book illustrates some of the issues with current approaches in project planning and management due to outdated computational tools that operate on methods created in the 1950s. It presents the Dynamic Progress Method (DPM), an innovative simulation-based approach designed to meet the pla

Spis treści

Introduction. Why "Dynamic Progress Method?" The Current Status of Project Management. Critical Path Method and Earned Value Management. The New Approach of Dynamic Progress Method. Overview of the Dynamic Progress Method Simulation Model. Overview of pmBLOX. Advanced Capabilities of Dynamic Progress Method.

O autorze

J. Chris White earned his BS in aerospace engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his MS in industrial engineering from the University of Michigan. He is President of ViaSim Solutions and is also an adjunct instructor at the University of Texas at Dallas and Texas A&M University–Commerce. He is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM) as well as a Lean Sensei and a Six Sigma Master Black Belt. He has published numerous articles in the fields of leadership, total quality management, Six Sigma, project management, strategic management, and simulation.

Robert M. Sholtes earned his BS in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and his MS in engineering and public policy from Washington University in St. Louis. He has been a special instructor at the George Washington University and an assistant instructor and research assistant at Washington University. He has published several articles and presented several conference papers in the fields of software development, simulation, and genetic algorithm optimization techniques.