{"id":226,"date":"2016-10-04T09:49:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T09:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/project.dke.maastrichtuniversity.nl\/studentprojects\/?p=226"},"modified":"2016-10-10T09:27:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T09:27:15","slug":"criticality-of-tasks-within-project-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project.dke.maastrichtuniversity.nl\/studentprojects\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Criticality of Tasks within Project Management"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Example<\/a>Student: Ashley Peternella
\nSupervisor: Dr. Jean Derks
\nSemester: 2015-2016<\/p>\n

Problem statement and motivation:<\/h2>\n

Project managers are charged with the responsibility of managing all the tasks within a project to ensure that the project is completed within an agreed deadline, with a certain quality, and for an agreed price. To know how much attention they need to invest in each task, managers need a measure that can capture the feature of \u2018criticality\u2019 of the tasks of a specified project. Criticality is defined as the importance of managing the duration of a task.<\/p>\n

\"Changing<\/a>
Changing a task’s link to test criticality based on dependency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Inspired by the pessimistic bankruptcy game for the problem of cost sharing, this article explores the idea of using the combination of cooperative game theory and the Shapley value as a method for capturing the expected features of criticality.<\/p>\n

Those features are: correlation between task duration and duration of the entire project, probability of being on \u2018the critical path\u2019, relation to other tasks, and task dependencies.<\/p>\n

The research presented will show that pessimistic games in their purist forms only further formalise the concept of cruciality, which is the importance of managing the duration- uncertainty of tasks. An adapted method is created, which will be proven to capture the desired features of criticality, and serve as proof of concept.<\/p>\n

Research hypothesis:<\/h2>\n

Cooperative game theory could help define the feature of criticality of tasks within project management.<\/p>\n

Major outcome:<\/h2>\n

The adapted method seems to capture all desired features of criticality and thus serves as proof of concept.<\/p>\n

References:<\/h2>\n