Organization Modeling Lab Objective: Learn to use the SimVision Organization tool

Notes:

• This lab introduces Organization Modeling using SimVison
• This lab builds on and extends simple building of Lab 1
• All the software you need is on each of the CIFE lab computers
• Please see tips for the techniques you need to manipulate software

Process to perform this lab:

1. Review your design-construction process from the POP Lab
2. Create a POP model for the design - construction project, with special emphasis on the function, form and behavior of the Organization. Define at least
   • one design activity
   • at least one construction activity for each physical element in your POP model
   • Goals for project completion date, maximum actor backlog and performance one other parameter, which you represent explicitly in the Function section of the POP model and also in the MACDADI description of threshold values and relative goal weights.
3. Start: Based on the content of the POP model, create a SimVision model of your design-construction organization and process. Try to be completely consistent in the sense that each function and form from the POP model is represented in the SV model and there are no functions or forms in the SV model that are not in the POP model. Include:
   • activities (called Task in SimVision) for each for each task in the Process segment of your POP model
   • at least two activities in parallel
   • at least two activities in series
   • at least one Position (SimVision term for team) for each task in the Organization segment of your POP model
     • Adjust the work volume for the construction tasks based on your assessment of task complexity. Arbitrarily, use work volumes in the range 5-10 working days.
   • Specify those project goals that you can in SimVision
4. Create a new case for the situation in which the Program Info Exchange Probability, Functional Error Probability and Project Error Probability exceed 0 (e.g., they are 0.1 each)
5. Based on the discussion of Program Info Exchange Probability and Program Project Error Probability in Modify properties of tips, add at least one appropriate "green link" and one "red link" between SimVision tasks.
6. Simulate your revised organization - Process model.
7. Review the predicted behaviors, including Schedule finish date, Position backlog, Task Schedule growth, Work Breakdown (showing Hidden work)
8. Look at the SimVision evaluation of project performance using the Executive Dashboard. Note that SimVision has a definition of project performance that is much more restricted than that which you can specify in MACDADI.
9. Transfer predicted behavior values relating to your project goals from SimVision analysis results to the corresponding POP behaviors and then invoke the MACDADI evaluation of all the cases you modeled and analyzed:
   • There is a version of the CAD Lab POP model that you can download and customize if you want
   • If you have not done so already, enter into the POP model the Product, Organization and Process goals, qualitative threshold values and Weights for each. Note that the SimVision lab produces many organization and process performance predictions, some of which you should enter into your POP model as predicted behavior values.
   • Update the Assessed Behavior columns of the POP or POPV2 models for each predicted value you transferred from SimVision.
   • Look at the Analyses sheet to see tabular and graphical summaries of Project Goals, Assessed performance and Evaluated goodness for all options.
10. Save your work

Last updated 13 July 2010

• Mouse select your (new) project name pane tab to move from the Program view to the Project view
• Create project milestones
• Create project tasks to achieve each milestone and link them with successor relationships
• Create project Positions to do the work and link them with Primary Assignment relationships
• Simulate to verify your object model topology; fix any model bugs
• Modify the properties of your milestones, tasks and positions to make them appropriate for the design-construction task. For the baseline case, make program probabilities = 0
• Simulate
• Analyze; adjust object parameter values until your predicted schedule makes sense. You now have defined the Baseline model.
• Create a new case and assign non-zero program probabilities.
• Analyze the Gantt chart and Schedule Growth chart (comparing current case to Baseline) to understand the effects of coordination and rework on your schedule predictions.