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construction projects are temporary, unique and challenging. The management of construction projects requires the coordination of a large number of people. The design and implementation of an effective project organization structure is vital for project success. Project success involves delivering the scope on time, within budget in addition to meeting or exceeding customer's expectations. The objective...
We have observed students teams on a software engineering project course to understand what software engineering practices they end up using and how do they experience the usefulness of the selected practices and tools. In our context, the most often applied practices and tools were planning meeting, commitment to using tasks, self-selected communication tools, a revision control, and project management...
P2P outsourcing model is introduced to describe an interaction process of project tasks distribution between employees as a part of the enterprise project management system that supports decision-making process within the company. The proposed solution provides an agile technology of tasks allocation in enterprises with matrix organizational structure. The described approach was implemented using...
In this paper, methods of controlling of working hours and increasing its efficiency, means: formalized algorithm of software development project modified Gantt chart and software prototype for controlling working hours, are described.
This journal introduces the reader the background of Big Data Analytics and how efficiently Agile methodology can be applied to achieve the business goal. The journal focus on giving background of Big Data and how using Agile practices such as iterative, incremental, and evolutionary style of development can be applied for Big Data Analytics. This methodology brings in the advantage of involving business...
Agility is the capacity of an actor (organization, team, individual) to rapidly sense, adapt and create to achieve goals in a rapidly changing economic environment. When an actor follows the first three base patterns in the Agile Canon -- Measure Economic Progress, Proactively Experiment to Improve and Limit Work-in-process -- it is agile. Its pace can keep up with change. Adding a fourth -- Embrace...
The project management involves control through performance measurement. In order to do that, it is necessary to study the project from the point of view of multiple aspects. In the construction sector, there is a lack of suitable methods to assess the activities that must be performed for the fulfillment of a project. This article seeks to evaluate the critical path of a building site using SMARTS,...
The current challenging environment in the power generation sector in South Africa is not unique to the country. Many other countries face similar challenges characterized by unreliability of power supply, low capacity utilization and availability factor, deficient maintenance, poor procurement of spare parts, and high transmission and distribution losses among other problems. The need for a disciplined...
This paper presents a framework and empirical analyses for the survey data from 1,678 managers and professionals working in a collaborative environment for Japanese software houses to understand relationships among factors of factor groups; the project manager, project team members, and the organization, which may lead to project success/failures. The results of the research model using SEM show that...
Some problems related to software process and project management improvement programs are detected during their implementation. Companies from the software projects segment have difficulty dealing with software Project management and quality models (CMMI, MPS-BR and PM-BOK) since the ways to implement the key areas of the process and the good practices inherent to Project management are interpreted...
Project size, as measured by the amount of investment required, is a relevant parameter to be used in project selection. The evaluation of a project portfolio must consider the variety of project sizes that may be met, so that a proper model should be adopted to describe that variety, especially for its use in simulation. In this paper, a log-normal probability model is suggested to describe the dispersion...
This paper presents a prototype for a risk project management game template (PrimaGate). The template was developed in order to offer instructors and learners a flexible tool to build or adapt project risk management games that could be included as part of the curriculum to teach project management. The core focus of the design was to create a learning environment that facilitates the involvement...
The paper is devoted to increase the effectiveness of decision-making in outsourcers involvement in projects of municipal water supply systems reconstruction. The functional models of decision-making processes are developed. On the basis of verbal analysis method ZAPROS the model for alternative outsourcers multi criteria ranging is presented.
Over the last decade, companies have been including social and environmental strategies in response to stakeholders demand. Efforts are been made to identify when a sustainable strategy can improve economic performance. Innovation is seen as the panacea, but recently, researchers have found that these innovations are really effective when are applied not only to products and process but to the entirely...
Many companies adopt project management organization to develop products. In the current business environment, it is getting more difficult for project managers to bring projects to success. The expectations are increasing for methodology that helps to train project managers.
As a discipline, project management has been accused of having lost its relevance for innovative initiatives because it emphasizes planning and control over the flexibility and learning-based strategies that are needed to succeed under uncertainty. Several authors therefore recommend adaptive project management practices - sometimes named “targeted flexibility” - that respond to project characteristics...
Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle has taken Agile Portfolio Management into use at web and mobile development. This paper examines how the general benefits of Agile Portfolio practices described in training material and literature differ from the actual benefits described by real users of Portfolio Kanban Board. We also compare if the Principles of Large-Scale Agile collected from various Agile Organizations...
One of strategies chosen by firms to increase firm's efficiency is the outsourcing of one or more firm's functions. Information technology (IT) is the most outsourced function. Due to the large number of highly capable IT vendors in developing countries, many firms in developed countries outsource their IT function to vendors in developing countries to reap the benefits i.e. lower cost. Although the...
This paper deals with our positive experience about project-based pedagogy with the help of industrial partners to teach signal and image processing. During one semester, students are working in small groups of 6 to 8 students, supervised by two teachers or engineers working in a small or a big com pany. Various topics are proposed each year such as radar pro cessing, mobile communication system or...
After more than a decade of research in Global Software Engineering (GSE), organisations have a wealth of practices that they can draw on to support them in their global development activities. However, practitioners are now asking, "What is the current status of my GSE practices?", "How prepared is my company for GSE?", "What practices need improving?" We aim to give...
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