NDLI: Performance Variability and Project Dynamics

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Author	Huberman, Bernardo A. Wilkinson, Dennis M.
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	We present a dynamical model of complex cooperative projects such as large engineering design or software development efforts, comprised of concurrent and interrelated tasks. The model contains a stochastic component to account for temporal fluctuations both in task performance and in the interactions between related tasks. We show that as the system size increases, so does the average completion time. Also, for fixed system size, the dynamics of individual project realizations can exhibit large deviations from the average when fluctuations increase past a threshold, causing long delays in completion times. These effects are in agreement with empirical observation. We also show that the negative effects of both large groups and long delays caused by fluctuations may be mitigated by arranging projects in a hierarchical or modular structure. Our model is applicable to any arrangement of interdependent tasks, providing an analytical prediction for the average completion time as well as a numerical threshold for the fluctuation strength beyond which long delays are likely. In conjunction with previous modeling techniques, it thus provides managers with a predictive tool to be used in the design of a project's architecture.
Starting Page	307
Ending Page	332
Page Count	26
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1381298X
Journal	Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
Volume Number	11
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15729346
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2006-01-14
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	team performance team dynamics large cooperative projects stochastic dynamics Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Management Operations Research/Decision Theory Methodology of the Social Sciences Sociology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Applied Mathematics Computer Science Decision Sciences Computational Mathematics Modeling and Simulation

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