Buffer
Buffer is a means or device used as a cushion against the shock of fluctuations in business or financial activity. Due to variability, the demand flow and the process flow never perfectly synchronize, and some ...
VDC
Variability
Variability is the term used to describe any dissimilarity between specific instances of a particular operation or process, particular entity output from an operation, or a particular demand. The dissimilarity may manifest itself in terms ...
Interoperability
Interoperability is the ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged. Ref.: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Standard Computer Dictionary: A ...
Stakeholder
A project group or individual stakeholder with responsibility for an activity in a process. Actors and a process together define an Organization-Process model. Ref.: Kunz, J., & Fischer, M. (2012). Virtual Design and Construction: Themes, ...
Controllable Factors
Controllable Factor is a condition that a designer or manager can actually control, such as a design choice about a product, the choice of what teams and people to hire, and the design of a ...
Performance Metric
Performance metric is an aspect of project performance that a team can measure frequently (hourly, daily or every week or two) and use to judge how well past management choices are moving toward the final ...
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Building Information Modeling, BIM, consists of the use of a shared digital representation of a built asset to facilitate design, construction and operation processes to form a reliable basis for decisions. Ref.: ISO 19650-1:2018. Organization ...
ICE Sessions
ICE Sessions consist of informally coordinated, but highly focused, simultaneous development of interdependent material by all team members. Ref.: Chachere, J., Kunz, J., & Levitt, R. (2004). Observation, Theory, and Simulation of Integrated Concurrent Engineering: ...
Integrated Concurrent Engineering (ICE)
A way to organize a design team that enables stakeholders from multiple disciplines to participate concurrently to develop integrated project designs very rapidly. Ref.: Kunz, J., & Fischer, M. (2012). Virtual Design and Construction: Themes, ...
Project Production Management (PPM)
Project Production Management (PPM) is the application of Operations Science theories, principles, and methods to better understand, control and improve project delivery. Ref.: Project Production Institute. Project Production Management is, simply put, the application of ...
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