On-Time Completion: Myth to Reality

National Conference on Thrust Areas in Engineering, Bangalore, 2012

5 Pages Posted: 1 Oct 2012

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A. N. Prakash

A. N. Prakash Construction Project Management Constultants Pvt Ltd

Nagesh Ramamurthy

CBRE South Asia Pvt. Ltd.

Date Written: January 20, 2012

Abstract

During project’s initialisation phase, conclusion of time of completion of project is a hurried affair. Conventional linear scheduling methods fail to capture on-time completion in reality. Ever growing needs on changes due to stakeholder, resource constraints, location, environmental factors, and economic situation drive this subjective term ‘on-time’ completion. Using heuristic rules and historical values, envisioning alternatives, interactions of project’s triple constraints are seldom considered for developing practical and feasible Project duration. Construction phase is often marred by surprises and changes. The pace of the construction and moral of the team is dented by surprises. This paper aims to look at the factors that influence determination of realistic ‘project duration’ which helps facilitate a project in achieving ever elusive ‘on-time completion’, and focus on various outcomes of several interactions and influence between various parameters before conclusion of ‘project duration.'

Keywords: project duration, on-time completion, realistic schedule, resource constraints, triple constraints

Suggested Citation

Prakash, A. N. and Ramamurthy, Nagesh, On-Time Completion: Myth to Reality (January 20, 2012). National Conference on Thrust Areas in Engineering, Bangalore, 2012, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2155332

A. N. Prakash

A. N. Prakash Construction Project Management Constultants Pvt Ltd ( email )

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Nagesh Ramamurthy (Contact Author)

CBRE South Asia Pvt. Ltd. ( email )

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Bangalore, 560094
India

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