Agile Project Management within the BIM based Common Data Environment

Abstract

This research is intended to extract the similarities of the Agile project management and the BIM project management methodologies and examine the possibility of adapting the Agile Scum framework into the Common Data Environment of a BIM project to which will be referred as the Scrum BIM Synthesis in this research. The first part of the research reviews the literature on Agile and BIM separately in order to obtain a thorough understanding of both, after which the main common interests of them have been extracted and further refined to form the Scrum BIM Synthesis. According to these shared interests, Common Data Environment would be a suitable context for their synthesis to take place. Specific adjustments for the Common Data Environment structure and some refinements for the Scrum rules have been suggested in order to enable the adaption of Scrum within a BIM based Common Data Environment. These suggestions are made in the form of conceptual screenshots of the Scrum BIM Common Data Environment at specified points of the process, and in the form of redefined structure for the Scrum BIM Common Data Environment as well. Furthermore, the metrics to control the Scrum process that are obtained from the literature review have been tailored for monitoring and controlling the Scrum BIM process and ranked by the interviewees to bring out the five most effective and applicable metrics to the Scrum BIM Common Data Environment. Through the result evaluation process for which a few interviews have been conducted the suggested collaboration platform has been further defined and the practical challenges of implementing it have been examined.