Dinah YoungProject Manager / Software Asset Manager| Prince William CountySpringfield, Va, United States
I was just reading about this process and can honestly say I did not understand it at all. It says something about creating a weighted evaluation. Can someone help me understand?
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AHP is a pairwise comparison based decision making method, which could be used by a governance committee to decides how to weight the different criteria used to evaluate project requests.
For example if we have four such criteria, rather than the committee trying to decide directly on their weighting, they can compare pairs of them in turn and that can be used to derive the weights.
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
I worked on a company where we sold software to support the model. Because I am in charge of presales division my team was responsible to demostrate the software and the method were the "best of the world" for each company. There is not enough room to explain the method here. Perhpas other person can explain you in few words, I can not do that because all needed to understand the method. My recommendation is searching into the internet. This page could help you: http://thequalityportal.com/q_ahp.htm Saving Changes...
Dinah,
This was developed by Thomas Saaty late 1970 to 1980 based on mathematics and psychology used in group decision making for complex decision it uses math to weight the options and alternative it is similar to what I have studied in my electrical engineering when we calculate vector group for transformers and phase angle between voltage and current
So it apply like the Hierarchy to reach a goal of decision it is complicated with calculation to score each alternative and how important
Once the matrix A is built, it is possible to derive from A the normalized pairwise comparison matrix Anorm by making equal to 1 the sum of the entries on each column, each entry matrix Anorm is comp
Finally, the criteria weight vector w (that is an m-dimensional column vector) is built by averaging the entries on each row of Anorm
1 For a matrix A, aij denotes the entry in the ith row and the jth column of A. For a vector v, vi denotes the ith element of v. I tried to draw the formula but I can not put the samples
however in simple language the process will follow these steps
Model the problem as a hierarchy containing the decision goal, the alternatives for reaching it, and the criteria for evaluating the alternatives.
Establish priorities among the elements of the hierarchy by making a series of judgments based on pairwise comparisons of the elements. For example, when comparing potential purchases of commercial passenger coach, the investors might say they prefer Diesel over Gasoline and Made in Germany over made in China, the time of delivery over price range
Synthesize these judgments to yield a set of overall priorities for the hierarchy. This would combine the investors' judgments about fuel, origin of manufacturing and timing for A, B, C, and D into overall priorities for each Coach
Check the consistency of the judgments.
Come to a final decision based on the results of this process
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Also there are so many techniques out there it doesn't necessary that you have to use them all go for simple one but if you feel comfortable with complicated one which you have already used it before on something else and you want to apply it to the project then that's fine, for example regression analysis and regression channels, purely they have been used for engineering but they started to be used on other subjects now like time serious forecast, Fibonacci Retracement and extension all they forecast for charting analysis for financial securities. Saving Changes...
Rajeev SharmaPrincipal Consultant | Strategy, EA CoE | Digital Transformation, AI and Gen-AI| Tech MahindraGurgaon, Haryana, India
Analytics driven processes bring add on insights in decision making - if applied for objectives. Saving Changes...
Dinah YoungProject Manager / Software Asset Manager| Prince William CountySpringfield, Va, United States
OK. I understand the overall concept now.
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