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Vol. XI Issue VII - July 2009
Project Management eJournal
FEATURED PAPER
Quantitative Analysis of Team Size and its Hierarchical Structure
By Pavel Barseghyan, PhD
Typically, successful project teams are composed of compact groups of specialists, constituting a hierarchy. Obviously such a hierarchical construction of the project team has a deep rationale as the most desirable from the standpoint of maximizing productivity.
This work is devoted to the quantitative study of the problem of justification of the hierarchical structure of project teams through the analysis of connectivity and communication between people. The study is based on the theory of Massively Interconnected Systems and the differential equation of connectivity.
Analytical dependences for describing the productivity of project teams as a function of the total number of people and their distribution in a hierarchical structure are obtained.
Key words: Interaction between the people, theory of Massively Interconnected systems, connectivity field, vector representation of connectivity fields, differential equation of connectivity, Power Laws, team size, group size, team productivity, hierarchical structure of design teams.
Introduction
Cells constitute integral part of any system, including human communities and organizations. Structures built on the basis of cells are the most effective in all respects. Human cells or human groups are powerful means for increasing efficiency of the organization of human labor.
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 About the Author
Dr. Pavel Barseghyan is the Vice President of Research for Numetrics Management Systems, has over 40 years experience in academia, the electronics industry, the EDA industry and Project Management Research. Also he is the founder of Systemic PM, LLC, a project management company. Prior to joining Numetrics, Dr. Barseghyan worked as an R&D manager at Infinite Technology Corp. in Texas. He was also a founder and the president of an EDA start-up company, DAN Technologies, Ltd. that focused on high-level chip design planning and RTL structural floor planning technologies. Before joining ITC, Dr. Barseghyan was head of the Electronic Design and CAD department at the State Engineering University of Armenia, focusing on development of the Theory of Massively Interconnected Systems and its applications to electronic design. During the period of 1975-1990, he was also a member of the University Educational Policy Commission for Electronic Design and CAD Direction in the Higher Education Ministry of the former USSR. Earlier in his career he was a senior researcher in Yerevan Research and Development Institute of Mathematical Machines (Armenia). He is an author of nine monographs and textbooks and more than 100 scientific articles in the area of electronic design and EDA methodologies, and tools development. More than 10 Ph.D. degrees have been awarded under his supervision. Dr. Barseghyan holds an MS in Electrical Engineering (1967) and Ph.D. (1972) and Doctor of Technical Sciences (1990) in Computer Engineering from Yerevan Polytechnic Institute (Armenia). Pavel can be contacted at pavel@systemicpm.com |
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