Analyzing Engineering-Related Delays Using Quality Function Deployment in Construction Projects

Using Linear Physical Programming in Optimizing Fuzzy Quality Function Deployment

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a customer-driven quality management and product development system for achieving higher customer satisfaction. It is necessary to determine relationships between customer requirements (CRs) and technical requirements (TRs), as well as correlation among the TRs themselves. Such data are usually ambiguous and fuzzy and people have different judgments about th...

Delays in Construction Projects: Causes and Mitigation

Analyzing delay causes in Egyptian construction projects

Construction delays are common problems in civil engineering projects in Egypt. These problems occur frequently during project life-time leading to disputes and litigation. Therefore, it is essential to study and analyze causes of construction delays. This research presents a list of construction delay causes retrieved from literature. The feedback of construction experts was obtained through i...

Analyzing Communication Patterns in Software Engineering Projects

Effective communication is a key to project success. This is particularly true in the area of software engineering projects where specialized team members must communicate highly technical material to one another in a consistent and timely fashion. In this paper, we analyze the communications of three student software development teams engaged in a year long project in order to understand patte...

Ai-supported Quality Function Deployment Abstract| Manual Quality Function Deployment

(QFD) tools are limited in their use and their reuse. Computational tools can alleviate these limitations. In addition, Artiicial Intelligence (AI) tools can further enhance the functionality of QFD tools. A graph-based information representation is proposed as the basis for integrating various QFD and AI tools. An architecture of a computational QFD (CQFD) tool based on the graph-based mod-eli...