A New Method for Calculating Project Progress Based on Multi Criteria Decision Making

This paper proposes a new method for precise calculation of the progress of projects with the aim of increasing accuracy and flexibility of project control. The merit of this method is that it is not only accepted by all the project components, but also it ensures the integrity of the project and its uniform scheduling. To achieve this purpose, project activities are weighted by group analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the technique of order performance by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) - which are two types of the multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) – and after being normalized they are used to achieve upper levels of reality, flexibility and accuracy in the field of progress measurement. Finally, for proving the validity of the method and its advantage over other methods, it is practically applied to a case study. The results are graphically illustrated by S-curve and statistically shown by analysis of variance.