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Exploring the Relations between Project Duration and Activity Duration

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Project Management and Engineering

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In this paper we explore through a case study how project estimated duration and project variability are affected by changes in activity duration and/or its variability. This analysis allows us to reveal the most influencing activities, and how they impact project duration and variability. At the same time, criticality index and cruciality index are analyzed for each activity when their duration and variance are modified.

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  1. Grupo INSISOC, Departmento de Organización de Empresas y CIM, Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales, Universidad de Valladolid, Pso del Cauce S/N, 47011, Valladolid, Spain

    F. Acebes, J. Pajares & A. López-Paredes

  2. Grupo INSISOC, Área de Organización de Empresas, Departmento de Ingeniería Civil, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Burgos, C. Villadiego S/N, 09001, Burgos, Spain

    J. M. Galán

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Correspondence to F. Acebes .

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  1. Universidad de Córdoba, Cordoba, Spain

    José Luis Ayuso Muñoz

  2. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    José Luis Yagüe Blanco

  3. Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

    Salvador F. Capuz-Rizo

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Acebes, F., Pajares, J., Galán, J., López-Paredes, A. (2015). Exploring the Relations between Project Duration and Activity Duration. In: Ayuso Muñoz, J., Yagüe Blanco, J., Capuz-Rizo, S. (eds) Project Management and Engineering. Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12754-5_2

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