Performance variability and project dynamics

DOI10.1007/S10588-005-5587-5MaRDI QIDQ853659zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bernardo A. Huberman, Dennis M. Wilkinson

Publication date 17 November 2006

Published in Computational \& Mathematical Organization Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0406699

zbMATH Keywords

stochastic dynamicsteam dynamicslarge cooperative projectsteam performance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear systems in control theory (93C05) Estimation and detection in stochastic control theory (93E10)

Abstract: We present a dynamical theory of complex cooperative projects such as large engineering design or software development efforts, comprised of concurrent and interrelated tasks. The model accounts for temporal fluctuations both in task performance and in the interactions between related tasks. We show that as the system size increases, so does the average completion time. Also, for fixed system size, the dynamics of individual project realizations can exhibit large deviations from the average when fluctuations increase past a threshold, causing long delays in completion times. This effect is in agreement with empirical observations, and can be mitigated by arranging projects in a hierarchical or modular structure.

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