Project Management Front Loading Rate Calculation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Risk management in project management often fails to effectively reduce risks, as existing methods focus on extracting risks from past projects without adequately addressing them, leading to unresolved concerns and anxieties among project members.
Innovation Solution
A project management support system that calculates a 'front loading rate' of risk measures to problems, displaying the results in a manner that visualizes risk reduction, promoting proactive risk management by recording measures and problems in separate tables and calculating the ratio of measures to problems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If risk measures are extracted from past similar projects at project launch, then risk identification is performed, but risk reduction is insufficient and risks are managed as problems after manifestation
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by calculating the front loading rate to determine whether risk measures should be taken before problems manifest. By comparing the ratio of recorded measures to total problems+measures against a threshold, the system proactively identifies when sufficient risk mitigation actions have been planned, enabling early intervention before risks materialize into problems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring the front loading rate and providing visual feedback through color-coded indicators (green for sufficient measures, red for insufficient measures). This feedback mechanism allows project teams to assess their risk management status and take corrective actions before risks manifest, closing the loop between risk identification and risk mitigation.
2Loss of information
If risk management tables are created at project launch, then risk documentation is established, but project members' concerns and anxieties remain unrecognized
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies self-service by enabling project members to directly input their concerns and anxieties into the system, which are then automatically processed to calculate the front loading rate. This self-service approach ensures that individual concerns are captured and recognized without requiring complex manual review processes, while still integrating into the overall risk management framework.
3Measurement precision
If measures are recorded in separate tables from problems, then risk management tracking is enabled, but visual recognition of risk reduction level is difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses color changes to provide intuitive visual recognition of risk reduction status. The display unit shows green indicators when the front loading rate exceeds the threshold (indicating sufficient risk measures) and red indicators when it falls below the threshold (indicating insufficient measures). This color-coded visual feedback makes it immediately clear whether risk reduction goals are being met without requiring detailed analysis of the underlying data.
Data Source
AI summary
In a project management support system, a ratio calculation unit calculates, as an “FL rate of project management”, a ratio of the number of measures recorded in a risk measure to-do list to a sum of the number of problems recorded in a problem management table and the number of measures recorded in the risk measure to-do list. An achievement level calculation unit calculates a level of goal achievement for the “FL rate of project management” from a calculation result by the ratio calculation unit and a target value of the “FL rate of project management”. A display control unit sets a display mode of the calculation result by the ratio calculation unit in accordance with the level of goal achievement calculated by the achievement level calculation unit and performs control to display the calculation result on a display in the display mode being set.