PiM: Process of building a new garden house (Likelihood of Developments) 7

The aim of this little model is to explore the project modeling possibilities of the PROCESS-iMODELER (it is called PROCESS-iMODELER (PiM) though it is just a feature of the quantitative iMODELER).

The project at hand is the building of a small garden house. The model probably isn't complete in its details as it just should show the functionality.

This version of the garden house model shows how to model likelihoods of incidents e.g. of a person becoming ill or the occurrence of a quality problem.

As each PiM factor automatically gets a category (project factor, process factor, resource factor, level resource factor or milestone factor) you can easily filter (Menu … Filter) the view and opt for example for just showing the project steps.

Here you see a filter showing just resources and project steps and a model view from the perspective of one resource factor.

When you have used likelihood, graussrandom or random in your formula to describe the likelihood e.g. of an incindent the iMODELER automatically offers to run Monte-Carlo simulation. The result then is a spaghetti plot where you can click on any scenario (in this screenshot the red curve) in order to see this scenario when clicking on any factor of your model.

Here you see how quality problems effect the project step

Here you see that resource Person 2 is quite often unused…..

… while Person 2 seems to be fairly occpupied and thus the bottleneck (constraint, ToC).

Actually the overall goal of this model is to look at the perfect garden house which also considers the planned budget and the real costs.