Performance Analysis Exercise

$1.$ Your group has the role of a Project Management Office $($PMO$),$ which has collected a large amount of data on public construction projects in the Washington, D$.$C$.,$ area.

$2.$ Your objectives are to use this data to $($a$)$ assess project performance, and $($b$)$ make suggestions for future improvement.

$3.$ It$$s a good idea to divide the work so that you can each be doing a different analysis concurrently.

$4.$ Your report will be graded according to the syllabus. However, there is no $$model answer$,$ and many good solutions are possible. Please try to make your report prescriptive as well as descriptive.

The learning objectives of this performance assessment exercise are to:

$$ Understand the role of a PMO in benchmarking and evaluating projects.

$$ Understand how to use available data on project performance to identify which projects are typically more challenging.

$$ Learn how to identify areas of weakness within the organization$$s project portfolio.

$$ Learn how to identify anomalies in project performance data, and what behaviors may be causing them.

$$ Learn how to benchmark resources against other resources, and make recommendations for improvement.

Please follow the steps below:

a$.$ Download the $$DC construction data$$ file from the $$Performance Analysis Exercise$$ module on the course website.

b$.$ Analyze the dataset and assess performance of the projects with respect to the following:

a$.$ Frequency of early $/$ on$-$time $/$ late delivery

b$.$ Distribution of lateness, and explanations

c$.$ Causes of lateness $($between different factors$)$

d$.$ Anything else that seems useful.

You may want to use ANOVA or a paired t$-$test. You can also do any different analysis you like, so long as it is relevant and done correctly. Please see the following pages for some hints.

Deliverables

$1.$ Prepare a report in the following format $($for readability on the classroom screen$)$: a Word document in $12$ point Times New Roman font; on the cover page, only the group name and the names of groups members; and then about three more pages with normal margins. You can use single spacing; however long paragraphs with single spacing may be less appealing to read, so emphasize short sentences and bullet points. Any tables or graphs that can be captured in a Word document can be included.