Abstract
Construction projects are very dynamic, so change management is crucial there. Changes in schedule and in stakeholders relationships are among the most important change management areas. Making decisions on such changes is an extremely difficult task. It can be facilitated by special visualization techniques. The existing techniques are analyzed and their drawbacks revealed. In order to address these drawbacks, new techniques are proposed for the visualization of both schedule and stakeholders relationships changes. They are based on the application of the spring image used in mechanics to the visualization of the project’s dynamics. The performance of the techniques is shown in examples. The results are discussed and further research is outlined.
Highlights
Construction projects are very dynamic in nature
The first example is an arbitrary schedule consisted of 5 activities, and “the spring chart” is used to visualize its dynamics during execution
“The spring chart” implementation As mentioned above, the schedule consists of 5 activities
Summary
The success of a project depends highly on the quality of change management [1]. In this paper we will focus on the management of changes in activity scheduling (rescheduling) and in stakeholders relationships. These changes are very important because they contribute significantly to project stability. Construction schedules are often highly volatile during execution [2], especially at an operational level [3]. It might be due to changes in project requirements [6], poor execution requiring rework [4], delivery delays, etc. It might be due to changes in project requirements [6], poor execution requiring rework [4], delivery delays, etc. [7, 8]
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