Advancing Strategic Planning and Dynamic Control of Complex Projects

Strategic project planning and dynamic control is essential for ensuring complex projects to be executed best-fit for common purpose. When best-for-project strategies are no longer conceivable for humans, there is a need for effective and efficient computer-aided decision support. To this end, stand...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Teuber, L G, van Heukelum, H J, Wolfert, A R M
Format Paper
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 22.08.2024
Subjects
Control methods
Decision making
Design optimization
Dynamic control
Highway construction
Monte Carlo simulation
Offshore construction
Project management
Project planning
Risk management
Simulation
Strategic planning
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Summary:Strategic project planning and dynamic control is essential for ensuring complex projects to be executed best-fit for common purpose. When best-for-project strategies are no longer conceivable for humans, there is a need for effective and efficient computer-aided decision support. To this end, standard simulation-driven evaluation and a-posteriori decision-making is often used instead of a combined simulation and optimisation approach that a-priori integrates the stakeholders goal orientation and risk management into a best-fit design solution. However, recently developed state-of-the-art planning and control methodologies that do already incorporate this integration still lack a stochastic representation and/or an associative multi-objective approach. This paper presents a new project management methodology, called Odycon (Open design and dynamic control), which dissolves the aforementioned shortcomings. To enable this, a generic mathematical statement is first formulated for project planning and dynamic control uniting technical logistical) capabilities, human goal-oriented behaviour, and stakeholders interests. Then, both Monte-Carlo simulation (MCS) and the Integrative Maximisation of Aggregated Preferences (IMAP) optimisation method are combined, resulting in a best-fit strategic planning and dynamic control methodology. Odycons use and added value are demonstrated for two applications: (1) a pure strategic planning of an offshore wind installation project, and (2) a pure dynamic control of a highway infrastructure construction project. Both applications demonstrate Odycons advances in concurrent and associative design and decision-making, offering best-fit for common purpose synthesis for different complex project phases.
ISSN:2331-8422