NetLogo Task Board

The model aims to illustrate how a Task Board provides an approach to describe a project’s execution by comparing its actual progress against the planned one, allowing it to see trends to formulate forecasts. The instance performs a project execution which integrates the description of the work to do (scope), the deadlines for its execution (schedule), and the calculation of its costs and the resources required for its implementation (cost).

Specifically, we are addressing the following questions: How does the risk of execution delay or advance impact cost and schedule? How do the players’ number or individual work capacity impact the cost and schedule to finish? Regardless of why workers cause delays or produce overruns in their assignments, does a Task Board assess delivery behaviour and help make objective decisions?

To consider our model realistic enough for its purpose, we use the following patterns: The model addresses classic problems of Project Management (PM). It plays the typical task board where workers are assigned to complete a task backlog in project implementation. Workers could delay or advance in the task execution.