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Article Risk Management, Scheduling, Decision Making February 2014

Project Management Journal

A new decision making model for subcontractor selection and its order allocation

By Abbasianjahromi, Hamidreza | Rajaie, Hossein | Shakeri, Eghbal | Chokan, Farzad All experts agree on the importance of subcontracting. The high impact of subcontractors on the construction process means that the selection of subcontractors is a sensitive activity. Previous…

Conference Paper Scheduling, Decision Making, Risk Management, Strategy, Cost Management 23 October 2012

Project risk analysis to support strategic and project management

By El-Mehalawi, Mohamed E. Successful project cost and schedule risk management is always capable of informing project management of "where the project is" and "where the project is going" in the future. Current project…

Conference Paper Scheduling, Decision Making, Strategy, Risk Management 2006

Expected utility theory as a guide to contingency allocation

By Thibadeau, Barbara | Edirisinghe, Chanaka Contingency--for both budgets and schedules--provides project managers with the estimating cushion they need to protect their projects from cost and time overruns. Effectively allocating these…