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The Brief Development Manager as an it Tool for managing Dynamic Brief Development in Construction

Othman, Ayman A. E. / Hassan, Tarek M. / Pasquire, Christine L.

The Value and Risk Management Protocol (VRMP) is an innovative decision making tool developed by the authors to manage dynamic brief development in construction projects. Application of the protocol on real case studies showed that it is a time-consuming tool and there is a large amount of information that needs to be managed. In order to overcome these limitations, facilitate the use of the protocol and escalate its efficiency, this paper presents a computerised version of the VRMP called the Brief Development Manager (BDManager) prototype software. Because of their importance, the role of Information Management (IM) and Information Technology (IT) in managing dynamic brief development is illustrated. In addition, development, system architecture and description of the BDManager are described. Furthermore, three questions are asked to evaluate the BDManager. They are: what to evaluate, how to evaluate, and when to evaluate. In an endeavour to ensure its success as an effective IT tool to manage dynamic brief development, the reliability and validity of the prototype are discussed. Results of the evaluation questionnaire are presented and the users’ comments are applied to improve the performance of the prototype software.