Practical Application and Empirical Evaluation of Reference Class Forecasting for Project Management

Project Management Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 36-51

  Batselier, Jordy ^a   Vanhoucke, Mario ^b,c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VLERICK BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

earned value management; empirical database; Monte Carlo simulation; project forecasting; project management; reference class forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994009966     PISSN: 87569728     EISSN: 19389507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/875697281604700504     Document Type: Article

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