I can find some fairly narrow formulations of project entropy based on activity duration and I wonder if anyone has extended the idea to the whole end state of a project in its entirety.
My interest arises from thinking abut success and failure and the role of uncertainty or risk in this. I am not concerned with measurement so much as qualitative insights. For instance, it seems reasonably clear that the number of states corresponding to failure is larger, possibly unbounded, than the number of states corresponding to success, at least with a limited amount of resources, both those used to carry out work and those that constitute the finished output, available to implement a project.
Ideally I would like to be able to accommodate information content and physical assembly (the arrangement of tangible objects) in one framework.
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Entropy doesn't seem to be part of the discussion but it did make me see that the way one describes a project has implications for how one views entropy. There has been discussion elsewhere about the fact that the level of detail used will affect how one assesses entropy but this made me think that it may be useful on some occasions to consider entropy in the context of the physical and information content of its implementation but on other occasions there may be value in looking at it in terms of the objectives that drive a project and the relationships between them.
Having seen that there are at least two formulations that might prove useful, it is worth considering whether there are others.
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