Investigating the impact of industrial mega-projects life cycle on the changes of strategic key resources in the project critical path

Project as a temporary effort is a function of time, resources and costs and twoessential factors of lead time and profitability are the final determinants of success offailure of it. But other factors such as quality and customer satisfaction are alsoinfluential in assessing the project.The common method of industrial engineers in planning and investigation of projectsis operational planning. In this method of planning, the activities or work packages arethe main core and project constraints (resources, cost, scope and risk) are defined foreach project. From this viewpoint there are two essential challenges. First that theresources shall be divided among the activities by a method and second that if thechange is intended, it shall be considered for all activities. This difficulty causesspecially in mega-projects which are consisted of thousands of activities or workpackages, assigning the project constraints to the activities do not happen or it isconducted merely without analysis.From one hand the large industrial project which are known as mega-projects to haveunique behaviors that differentiate them from the projects such as research anddevelopment and have behaviors like production projects. This feature enables us tosimulate these projects in terms of behavior and performance. With regards to the above mentioned points, in this paper the possibility of largeproject modeling in viewpoint of strategic resources influential in project areinvestigated.

Keywords:

Strategic key resources , Project life cycle , Mega-project , Project critical path