Abstract
Project managers very often describe their projects as simple or complex when discussing management issues. This indicates a practical acceptance that complexity makes a difference to the management of projects. The purpose of this paper is to propose a worker's skill-based metric for the complexity of a construction project activity using the concepts of functional decomposition and validate it. Based on a sample of 13 project activities from two construction projects, the empirical validation of the proposed metric using Spearman rank order coefficient exhibited a strong correlation between complexity of a project activity (CPA) and its completion time.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 432-448 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2011 |
Keywords
- complexity measurement
- worker skills
- project complexity
- project activity