Project Management Tools Selection Using BWM TOPSIS

Abstract

There are many project management tools on the market. It is arduous to select the best project management tool and meet individual needs. This paper proposes multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM), namely, Best–worst Method (BWM) and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) to handle the project management tool selection problem and provides criteria for project management tool selection. In our result, the proposed method can assist determine which tool is the best. In addition, we evaluated the method with pairwise matrices. The results revealed that our proposed method is less complicated due to utilizing a smaller number of pairwise comparisons and a smaller number of elements of pairwise comparison matrices, compared with the popular method like the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP). And, it is more reliable according to the consistency ratio (CR) being closer to 0 than the AHP in all matrices, i.e., the CR of the pairwise matrix of the criteria with BWM TOPSIS was 0.0157, while AHP was 0.0610.