ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the simulation model used on the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency research project and in pmBLOX®. It discusses the black elements represent variables and interconnections that exist in most traditional project management tools. In the task simulation model used in pmBLOX , resources and work activities are captured in an operational model. Project managers only implement corrective actions when the project or task is over budget. In this case, similar to the management policies for schedule priorities, the users can create table functions that define how changes in cost priorities lead to changes in the amount of overtime hours that are added to a project and the number of resources that are assigned to the task. A built-in assumption in the current pmBLOX Dynamic Progress Method model is that a project manager would never ask a person to work less than the normal day that is set in the calendar.
