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Author
Construction Industry Institute
Title
PDRI: Project Definition Rating Index Industrial Projects.
Coporate
Construction Industry Institute, Austin, TX
Report
Implementation Resource 113-2, July 1996, 95 p.
Distribution
For more information contact: Construction Industry, Institute, University of Texas at Austin, 3208 Red River Street, Suite 300, Austin, TX 78705. Telephone: 512-232-3000, Fax: 512-499-8108, Email: info@construction-institute.org Website: http://construction-institute.org
Keywords
construction
Abstract
As demonstrated in research results published previously by CII, and new data presented in this document, greater pre-project planning efforts lead to improved performance on industrial projects in the areas of cost, schedule, and operational characteristics. Unfortunately, until now, industry has lacked non-proprietary tools to assist in performing this critical stage of the project. The "Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) for Industrial Projects" is a powerful and simple tool that helps meet this need by offering a method to measure project scope definition for completeness. A PDRI score of 200 or less has been shown to greatly increase the probability of a successful project. This implementation guide contains chapters describing the PDRI, why it should be used, how to score a project, how to analyze a PDRI score and a path forward for the using this tool. Each of these chapters is supported by extensive background material in the Appendices.