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Project Management Journal
Determining Contingencies in the Management of Construction Projects
This research describes the managerial approaches that contractors follow to determine different types of contingencies in construction project management. Two large Spanish general contractors were…
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Project Management Journal
Practical Application and Empirical Evaluation of Reference Class Forecasting for Project Management
Traditionally, project managers produce cost and time forecasts by predicting the future course of specific events. In contrast, reference class forecasting (RCF) bypasses human judgment by basing…
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Project Management Journal
A study on complexity and uncertainty perception and solution strategies for the time/cost trade-off problem
In this article, the Discrete Time/Cost Tradeoff Problem (DTCTP) is revisited in light of a student experiment. Two solution strategies are distilled from the data of 444 participants and are…
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Project Management Journal
A Bayesian approach to improve estimate at completion in earned value management
Forecasting represents a core project management process. Estimates at completion in terms of cost and schedule provide essential data and advice to the project team to lead and control the project…
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Project Management Journal
Causal inferences on the cost overruns and schedule delays of large-scale U.S. federal defense and intelligence acquisition programs
A study was undertaken to understand why cost overruns and schedule delays have occurred and continue to occur on large-scale U.S. Department of Defense and intelligence community programs. Analysis…
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Project Management Journal
Analysis of the front-end loading of Alberta mega oil sands projects
In Canada's northern Alberta province lies one of the world's largest hydrocarbon deposits, a source which currently generates one million barrels of oil daily and contains 175 billion barrels of…
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Project Management Journal
Schedule and cost buffer sizing
Bias in project performance causes schedule and cost to overrun baseline estimates (your model).Bias is the one-sided tendency of actual schedule or cost to overrun the model.A Guide to the Project…
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Project Management Journal
Integrated cost and schedule control
Integrated cost and schedule control (C/S) was introduced in the United States more than a quarter of a century ago. However, traditional separated cost and schedule control is still one of the…
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Project Management Journal
The seven legal elements necessary for a successful claim for a constructive acceleration
The construction contracting process for a project is extremely complex. As a consequence, the process often results in contractual- related dispute that ultimately affects the design team, owner,…
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Project Management Journal
Project cost risk analysis using influence diagrams
This paper summarizes new techniques developed in ongoing research of cost risk analysis for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) environmental remediation projects. This class of projects has been…
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