Time Planning for Design Activities

• Main Author: 田志強
• Other Authors: 張行道
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2001
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43151496280312523385

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 土木工程學系 === 89 === It’s difficult to manage design work. Design management should provide a mechanism to plan in advance, control in the process, and review after finishing. This thesis is to present a time planning method for design activities. This method provides the mechanism of design project management, to plan budget work hours for activities, track actual hours and link their relationship to performance. By using questionnaire as the assessment tool, we can quantify the uncertainty and equivocality of design activities and the results are the basis to plan activity time. Further, by answering the questionnaire before and after design we found reduction of uncertainty and equivocality. The uncertainty and equivocality of task characteristics and human character are reduced. Those of task interdependence and task environment are almost the same. Those of task-possessed information increase. Uncertainty, equivocality and activity workload can form three dimensions. Eight task cubes can be built by dividing each dimensions into high and low degrees. In the case project, almost 50% of the activities belong to the cube of low uncertainty, low equivocality and low workload. The result is understandable. Maybe design activities are certain and clear, or design engineers are experienced. We can classify design activities into the eight cubes and assign management responsibility. Activities in individual cubes can be executed by high-level management, mid-level manager, and operational engineers, respectively. Prearranging proper human resources on proper positions or tasks will increase productivity.