Project management efficiency calculation through thermodynamics´ analogy. / Cálculo da eficiência do gerenciamento de projetos utilizando uma analogia com a termodinâmica.

AUTOR(ES)

Alexandre Cottini Mendes

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

More and more the project management is inside the international corporations, mainly due to their needs of reducing the non conformance costs generated by their projects and maximizing their profits. Those problems lead to the need of determination of measures related to project success, projects losses, analysismodels and studies concerning losses reduction, including the definition of the critical factors for projects success. This dissertation proposes a model capable of measuring the project management efficiency through an analogy between the Thermodynamics and the projects life cycle processes, presented by their activities, phases and subprojects. The efficiency concept is defined by the comparison between the planned costs and the actual costs in a project, or in other words, the level of financial success of the project management. The analogy correlates the models and equations from the Thermodynamics, specially the ones referring to the efficiency in a turbine with the projects processes. So, for every activity, phase or subproject, the equations and models are described using the earned value management methodology, allowing the calculation of the processlosses and especially the processefficiency. Three groups of factors that act as entropy generatorswere identified, according to the analogy: complexity, uncertainty and organizational maturity. Case studies showed that the analogy proposed is well based, as well as the relation between the three success factors and the project efficiency.

ASSUNTO(S)

termodinâmica process efficiency gestão de projetos project management eficiência de processos thermodynamics

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