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Holonic enterprises are considered as one of the new types of networking organizations used to increase business efficiency. In practice this requires to introduce a new type of management stimulating the “interpreneurial” approach, active interaction between actors to make coordinated and effective decisions on resource allocation, both within the individual project team and between the teams. In...
In recent years, various disasters have taken place frequently, and then highway blocking has happened from time to time. In order to be open to traffic as soon as possible, the project management should take the corresponding measures not consistent with the normal construction. This paper mainly studied the project management of urgent repair of highway after disaster(This paper uses "this...
The nature and process of R&D has changed considerably with the globalization of our business environment, often requiring the integration of large sets of activities and sub-systems across geographically dispersed areas and countries. Collaboration among the various work teams, support groups and stakeholders has become a critical success factor, especially for complex multinational developments...
This paper investigates the applicability of Use Case Point estimation model to global software project development. Nowadays, there is growing trend among leading software companies to outsource their project geographically, in countries with lower labor rate. This new trend increases competitiveness in the software market, which in turn shortens the development lifecycle time. This leads to several...
Nowadays, a considerable number of enterprises develop new products using an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. One of the modules of a typical ERP system concerns project management. Functionalities of this module consist of defining resources, company calendars, sequence of project tasks, task duration etc. in order to obtain a project schedule. These parameters can be defined by the employees...
The use of lessons learned in project management is still not fully satisfactory. The current web-based project management systems (WPMS) mainly support project lifecycle with no much consideration to project initiation and closing. The main objective of this paper is to incorporate the features of semantic web and features of wiki technology to capture project lessons learned knowledge. This paper...
The technological advanced global environment has originated multi-cultural virtual teams. It is quite novel conception to practitioners. The growth of virtual teams, virtual work groups, and virtual companies has been expedited with the arrival of internet technology that provides low-cost telecommunication and emails facilities. Different companies in all over the world and in Pakistan are rapidly...
Due to an increased need for learning modern project management methodologies, companies have been forced to improve their knowledge of Project Management Offices (PMO). Global business environment resulted with increased importance of project management methodologies, aligned with competitive strategies. Today, many organizations have recognized the importance of implementing PMO's for effective...
Most organisations are, or in the near future will be, faced with the need to respond to issues associated with their ageing workforce. This paper explores the implications of workforce ageing on engineering management, and reviews one organisation's implementation of a programme designed to mitigate the effects of workforce ageing on the potential for loss of knowledge and effectiveness as experienced...
Enterprises in the industrial sector of large-scale plant engineering are currently experiencing an extremely high level of competitive pressure. In order to stay profitable in the long run different approaches are suggested. The approach to increase the efficiency of a company during the project execution of turnkey plants, which is pursued in the present paper, refers to the establishment of process...
There are two "barriers" in the research of software engineering. One is "the barrier of individuality" and other one is "the barrier of secret". These have obstructed prosperity of the software engineering. For these nine years, the authors considered overthrowing these barriers. The authors realized the powerful in process measurement platform for software development...
This paper addresses a problem to identify risks in project plan documents written by project managers. Because some project managers express risks without negative words, risk identification method by negative expressions is not enough to identify them. In this paper, we propose a risk identification method by automatic acquisition of risk expressions. The proposed method acquires the risk expressions...
This paper presents a multicriteria methodology aimed at evaluating the quality of information technology (IT) projects. This assessment is derived from expert judgments regarding some aspects that are critical to project management. These criteria were obtained through a literature review and a questionnaire. For the development of this assessment fuzzy logic and multicriteria method SMARTS were...
The rapid development in the growing field of project management provides the opportunity for application in the construction of logistics enterprise information. From the function and characteristics of the logistics information system, this article introduces the life cycle of a project, analyses the logistics information system project management process, points out the problems and countermeasures...
Role-play exercise is an effective method of teaching project management, in which each student concentrates on playing the role of a stakeholder defined in a virtual project to solve problems from the perspective of his/her role, sharing information in a timely fashion. This paper proposes the introduction of a software agent in on-line role-play exercises, to act as a mentor and provide appropriate...
The lack of risk management, communication and understanding of the requirements are actually the main factors related to the low rate of success in software development, more specifically in distributed projects given the characteristics of this type of development. Considering distributed software projects, the main goal of this paper is to show communication inherent risks empirically identified...
OBJECTIVE -- The objective of this paper is to describe a case study where Bayesian Networks (BNs) were used to construct an expert-based Web effort model. METHOD -- We built a single-company BN model solely elicited from expert knowledge, where the domain expert was an experienced Web project manager from a small Web company in Auckland, New Zealand. This model was validated using data from 22 past...
Nowadays, some organizations were not success in realizing the benefits of ERP implementation. The aim of this study was to formulate a comprehensive recommendation for the ERP management in the post-project phase. The development of research model was done by an initial model development and a refinement process based on interviews with two ERP consultants. The research model defines five aspects...
The influences of project environment and leadership style on team performance are examined in a field study of 74 technology-based project teams. The findings provide insight into the business processes, organizational conditions and managerial leadership style most conducive to high project performance in complex and technology-based team environments. One of the most striking finding is the large...
By implementing Fuzzy Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method for selecting project manager in MAPNA Company a multi criteria decision making (MCDM) method was conducted in this paper as part of an extensive research. Project manager selection is another tough and complex issue among decision making problems. In order to use a systematic method, a framework is demonstrated in this paper to assist a...
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