On the project risk baseline: integrating aleatory uncertainty into project scheduling

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Main Authors: Acebes, Fernando, Poza, David, Gonzalez-Varona, Jose M, Pajares, Javier, Lopez-Paredes, Adolfo
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author Acebes, Fernando
Poza, David
Gonzalez-Varona, Jose M
Pajares, Javier
Lopez-Paredes, Adolfo
author_facet Acebes, Fernando
Poza, David
Gonzalez-Varona, Jose M
Pajares, Javier
Lopez-Paredes, Adolfo
contents Obtaining a viable schedule baseline that meets all project constraints is one of the main issues for project managers. The literature on this topic focuses mainly on methods to obtain schedules that meet resource restrictions and, more recently, financial limitations. The methods provide different viable schedules for the same project, and the solutions with the shortest duration are considered the best-known schedule for that project. However, no tools currently select which schedule best performs in project risk terms. To bridge this gap, this paper aims to propose a method for selecting the project schedule with the highest probability of meeting the deadline of several alternative schedules with the same duration. To do so, we propose integrating aleatory uncertainty into project scheduling by quantifying the risk of several execution alternatives for the same project. The proposed method, tested with a well-known repository for schedule benchmarking, can be applied to any project type to help managers to select the project schedules from several alternatives with the same duration, but the lowest risk.
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spellingShingle On the project risk baseline: integrating aleatory uncertainty into project scheduling
Acebes, Fernando
Poza, David
Gonzalez-Varona, Jose M
Pajares, Javier
Lopez-Paredes, Adolfo
General Economics
Economics
Risk Management
Obtaining a viable schedule baseline that meets all project constraints is one of the main issues for project managers. The literature on this topic focuses mainly on methods to obtain schedules that meet resource restrictions and, more recently, financial limitations. The methods provide different viable schedules for the same project, and the solutions with the shortest duration are considered the best-known schedule for that project. However, no tools currently select which schedule best performs in project risk terms. To bridge this gap, this paper aims to propose a method for selecting the project schedule with the highest probability of meeting the deadline of several alternative schedules with the same duration. To do so, we propose integrating aleatory uncertainty into project scheduling by quantifying the risk of several execution alternatives for the same project. The proposed method, tested with a well-known repository for schedule benchmarking, can be applied to any project type to help managers to select the project schedules from several alternatives with the same duration, but the lowest risk.
title On the project risk baseline: integrating aleatory uncertainty into project scheduling
topic General Economics
Economics
Risk Management
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00077