Automated CPM schedule generation for early project planning: Methodology and case study

초록

The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology to automatically generate CPM schedules for preliminary project planning. This paper mainly focuses on a process of generating CPM activities using automatically calculated durations. Historical labor productivity is utilized as a governing parameter to convey the previous experiences into a new project. Several different adjustment mechanisms are applied in order to enhance the reliability and to reduce the workload. A real-world case of implementing the proposed methodology is introduced in order to evaluate the effectiveness and viability of the method. Managerial issues including strategic significance from a corporate perspective, cost effectiveness for this ad hoc system, and overhead efforts to maintain standardized and structured historical databases are discussed as well. © ASCE 2009.