Task Dependency Risk Visualisation using DSMs

DSM 14 Proceedings of the 16th International DSM conference: Risk and Change management in complex systems

Year: 2014
Editor: Marle, F.; Jankovic, M.; Maurer, M.; Schmidt, D. M.; Lindemann, U.
Author: Minogue, P.
Series: DSM
Section: Dependencies between Tasks and Processes
Page(s): 223-232

Abstract

Where task dependencies are sufficiently complex, process-architecture or task-based Design Structure Matrices (DSMs) can be used to visualize, analyse and optimize those dependencies. Traditionally, this is done without consideration of task dependency risk. This paper explores a new way to visualize task dependency risk using DSMs. Both feedback path and feedforward path task dependencies are considered with a view to risk rating reduction and risk rating enhancement respectively. By taking task dependency risk rating into consideration, a more optimized taskbased DSM sequence, from an overall schedule risk perspective, may be determined.

Keywords: DSM, Task Dependency, Feedback Path, Feedforward Path, Probability, Impact, Risk Rating