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  1. Invite Participants for TeamTime Evaluation

    After having selected participants to evaluate the project and assigning them roles to evaluate objectives and/or alternatives , you can invite the participants into TeamTime Evaluation. This can be done in COLLECT INPUT > TeamTime Evaluation >...
  2. Structuring

    All non-trivial decisions have multiple objectives, and sometimes sub-objectives.  The resulting complexity opens the door to the limitations of effective decision making and the use of counter productive strategies .  Structuring objectives into...
  3. Levels Of Measurement

    Not all numbers have the same meaning in terms of what operations can be legitimately performed on them.  In order for operations like addition and multiplication with numbers to be mathematically meaningful, the numbers must possess certain proper...
  4. Problems with traditional rating scales

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  5. Synthesis

    Synthesis involves putting together or combining parts into a whole.  Analysis - the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements - is the opposite of synthesis. 1 Organizations have become quite good at doing analys...
  6. Pros and cons

    Perhaps the most common "formal" approach to making a choice among alternatives is to list the pros and cons of each alternative.  Certainly it would be wrong to calculate the net number of pros over cons for each alternative and then select the alt...
  7. Groups Constraints

     The Groups page is where you can add or delete group constraints to be used in the optimization.  When using our Resource Aligner, groups of alternatives can be defined to assure that one of the following four relationships exist among the alte...
  8. Relevant Constraints

    Relevant Constraints are constraints that are used by the optimizer for that scenario.  If a relevant constraint is removed or modified, the current solution will change.  You can select a scenario using the scenario drop-down and download t...
  9. Focus on Objectives

    Criteria, Objectives, and Attributes are terms that are often used interchangeably when making decisions.   Traditionally, people speak of criteria. We recommend focusing on "objectives" instead of criteria.  This helps clarify what should and sho...
  10. Importance of Hierarchical Structuring

    Humans have difficulty dealing with more than seven - plus or minus two - factors at a time.  To overcome this cognitive limitation, objectives can be structured into a hierarchy of clusters of elements.  One of the axioms of AHP is that the element...