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Simulation Project Success and Failure: Survey findings

Kansas State University

Doug White

George E. Heilman

University of Northern Colorado

This study investigates characteristics of successful and unsuccessful discrete event computer simulation projects. The findings show that unsuccessful projects are often characterized by high costs, model size constraints, and slow software. Successful projects are characterized by teamwork, cooperation, mentoring, effective communication of outputs, high-quality vendor documentation, easily understood software syntax, higher levels of analyst experience, and structured approaches to model development.

Key Words: decision support systems • language selection • simulation • software selection • success • systems analysis and design

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