Query 4: Build an initial project model

Submit as a pdf document in the Week-6 segment of the class Wiki. Please see writing guidelines. Please prepare thoughtful, concise responses.

Create one PowerPoint slide for each question, using at least 18 point font. Use the slide header to explain the content of each slide, based on the question in the query. As necessary, use the Notes section of slides for explanatory detail.

Notes:

• This is a group assignment for your class project group.
• All the software you need is on each of the CIFE lab computers (except the iRoom "server" which is a server, not an application machine).
• Prepare the slides for presentation to the class.

Warmup:

1. (5 points) Create an integrated Level-B POP, BIM and MACDADI analysis for your project. Show your:

• POP-FFB model for a baseline design version
• Annotate and briefly explain your assumptions about the business objectives, measurable objectives and important design features of a segment of the project that you plan to build as well as the physical, organizational and process elements in your Level-B model and the names of attributes whose values you plan to predict.
• Annotate and briefly explain the description of objectives, preferences, threshold values and evaluation of one design option in the MACDADI segment of your POP model as they relate to the sponsor objective of measuring and then improving schedule conformance
• Show a generic PBS, OBS and WBS for the project and relate their contents to your POP model.
• Briefly explain how a general contractor could use your VDC models to help track and manage your proposed objectives;

Interpretation:

2. (3 points) Show and simply annotate a simple 3D isometric sketch and an image from a BIM that address your project functions and that:
   • Shows examples of some of the roughly 10 types of objects that you listed in your POP model
   • Includes physical objects for each activity in the Process Form section of your POP model.
3. (2 points) Show a pretty picture of the schedule for your design and construction project that meets your process specifications from the POP model and that has a set of construction activities for each type of product form element in your POP model.
   • Annotate the POP model, schedule and an isometric sketch to identify at least two elements as they appear in each different representation.
4. (1 point) Show a SimVision Organization - Process model and analysis of your project.
   • Annotate the relationship between two organization and two process elements as represented in your baseline POP and SimVision models;
   • Show at least one prediction from the baseline SimVision model and annotate the relationship between this predicted value and a behavior in the POP model;
   • Annotate the features and summarize the significance of the MACADI chart that shows the evaluation of the predicted performance with respect to your assumed functional objective.

Synthesis:

5. (4 points) Please create two alternative case options the SimVision Organization-Process model of your design - construction project. Relative to your baseline, try one intervention that you think might improve predicted schedule, cost or process risk and another that might degrade performance. Show and annotate a few SimVision charts that document the differences in the model assumptions and the predictions of your baseline and intervention cases.
   • Summarize your baseline case and two interventions.
   • Annotate SimVision charts to explain your interpretation of the meaning of predicted behavior of each intervention case compared with your base case in two parameters that relate to your MACDADI objectives, e.g., actor backlog and task schedule risk.
   • Annotate one or more MACDADI charts that explain how the two intervention cases compare with the baseline.
   • Describe which of the three cases best meets your project functional criteria and briefly explain your reasoning.
6. (2 points) Create a single PowerPoint slide that summarizes your VDC modeling efforts and another that summarizes your recommendations for future BIMs.
   • On the summary, include part or all of your POP model and a snapshot of your Product, Organization and Process models. Use annotations to explain any relationship among the graphic models and components of the POP model.
   • On the recommendation slide, summarize your
     • PBS, which shows the intended content of the BIM to enable design reviews by the project team and the analyses you performed;
     • OBS, which shows the teams that create, review and analyze the BIM;
     • WBS, which shows the tasks used to create, review and analyze the BIM;
     • Checklist of a few steps to create and use a BIM and checks to make before the start of each step.
7. (1 point) Reflecting on your summary, identify at least three "pluses" and also three "deltas" of your integrated VDC models as you would explain them to a project sponsor. Briefly consider the contrast of your models with any project documentation and management you may have seen or studied in the past.
8. (2 points) Please summarize your findings concerning the following issues for your SimVision organization-process model:
   • Descriptive: Describe one explicit aspect in your organization design and another of your process design;
   • Evaluative: explain any way in which your design meets (or does not meet) a functional objective of your model;
   • Predictive: based on your SimVision simulation results, predict the value of a behavior related to the organization and another related to the process of your project that you think might be interesting to the owner.
   • Explanative: Use simple annotated figures to explain why your two predicted behavioral values have the values they do.
9. (2 points) On one slide, possibly referring to images from you POP, BIM and SimVision models, explain a storyline of your work, i.e.,
   • Describe the functional intent of your project -- ideally in a phrase or memorable "tag line"
   • Describe your design response to your functional intent
   • Describe one or two predicted values of behaviors of your design response
   • Evaluate the extent to which your design response meets project objectives
   • Based on your descriptions, prediction and evaluation, propose a scope of work to move your project forward.

Note that your story line includes Description, Prediction, Evaluation and Explanation. Comment on the believability of your storyline.

10. (1 point) ORID analysis - briefly summarize the week:

• Objectives: What facts did you see, hear?
• Reflective Positive: What surprised or encouraged you positively?
• Reflective Negative: What surprised or encouraged you negatively?
• Interpretive: What patterns and insights did you get;  what are some  limits of what you saw?
• Decisional: Identify  your next steps

Comments

• How much time did you spend talking with fellow seminar participants about the homework?
• How much time did you spend alone working on the homework?
• What was one thing you leaned in doing the homework or lab?
• What is one thing you found confusing or irritating in doing the homework?

Last revised:

14 February 2012