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This paper presents a literature review on the issues and challenges of ICT implementation in the construction industry. The objectives of this study are identification of the current types of ICT application used in the construction industry, Analysis of ICT training programs and identification of benefits, weaknesses and challenges against ICT implementation in construction industry. The study identified...
Multiple project environments are confronting a growing complexity with higher uncertainties and taut restrictions. A challenge in this research is problems and constraints of project risk management subject to sharing materials, equipments' allocation, skilled resources, and integrity information across concurrent multi-projects when project management is schedule-driven, often change requirements,...
This paper addresses the role of objects in enabling the coordination of highly knowledge-intensive projects. An empirical study of project work in the computer games sector explored the role played by milestone schedules. We found that such objects played a central role in coordination in several related ways which could not be explained in terms of previous theorizing. First, such objects exhibited...
Today most projects fail to deliver on time for various reasons. Reasons could be scope creep, unclear requirements, lack of right resources/budget etc. For project success it is essential to get buy-in from all stakeholders involved directly or indirectly. Different stakeholders are involved at different phases of a project. Though they are involved later, we still need to take their inputs at project...
By analyzing the logs of corporate e-mail networks we found a number of patterns, showing how the size of ego-networks of individual employees changes on a day by day basis. We proposed a simple model that adequately describes the observed time dependence of an employee's " social circle". Comparison of experimental data with the theoretical model showed that employees are divided into two...
This paper's objective is twofold: i) to present a methodology employed to build company-specific effort estimation models that incorporate expert knowledge and the uncertainty inherent to this complex domain; ii) to report on a case study where one such model was completely built from expert-knowledge for a Multimedia company in Auckland (New Zealand). It contains 36 factors and 48 causal relationships,...
Effort data is crucial for project management activities in software projects. This data is utilized in estimations that are required for project planning, in the formation of benchmarking data sets and as a main input for project monitoring and control activities. However, there are known problems regarding effort data collection in the industry. In this study we investigate the effort data collection...
Hangzhou public bicycle project, as the largest public bicycle project in the world so far, though has received some good comments since its operating, is doubtful among many citizens. This thesis analyses the current situation of project management in the following four aspects: market management, operation management, human re- source management and economic management. Afterwards, the thesis argues...
Based on practice, this essay presents a concise and practical method on development of small and medium software. Combining process management and document management, the author rationally uses QA(Quality Assurance), CVS(Concurrent Versions System), Checksheet and other management mechanisms to include the compilation of different documents and codes into an unified process. The author shows the...
This paper analyzes the evolution of strategic management analysis model and puts forward core competitiveness strategy in construction enterprises is comprehensive system that includes three connotations: best product, total customer solution, system lock-in. The strategy combinations and approaches of core competitiveness are proposed in this paper based on delta model finally.
The aim of this paper is to present how Net Present Value (NPV) can be used as a proper tool to ensure effective project management. The author proves that investment project's appraisal methods, such as e.g. NPV, can and should be used as an ongoing monitor of project health. What is more, even in case of project turbulences Net Present Value can be used as a key instrument for finding the most appropriate...
This paper presents work-in-progress on a software project management simulator suitable for educating and training prospective software project managers. The work presents the design of a modular architecture for the simulator as well as a modeling language for representing possible management scenarios. It finally reports on issues one has to bear in mind when considering the development of such...
Requirements prioritization is recognized as an important but challenging activity in software product development. For a product to be successful, it is crucial to find the right balance among competing quality requirements. Although literature offers many methods for requirements prioritization, the research on prioritization of quality requirements is limited. This study identifies how quality...
Role-play training is an effective method for project management education. We have provided a role-play training environment based on online -- group-work training to develop student's human elated skills: communication, negotiation and leadership. However students could not share the required information adequately with other students to make a decision about a trouble encountered in a virtual project...
In the economic globalization, increasing competition among enterprises, the market increasingly demanding requirements of enterprises, requiring production of the products it is necessary to have excellent quality but also requires companies to the market needs and quickly respond to quick. At the same time, the business itself is concerned, because the stringent requirements of external markets,...
The construction management of traditional government investing project has been exposed exactly with disadvantages on the special Chinese conditions and present market environment. so the performing of Agent-construction system model has historic inevitability and practice meaning. Agent-construction system is a new project management model that appears in this years, this paper analyzes the headspring...
This paper from new institutional economic angle demonstrate that supervision management introduced into engineering project management is an exchange way of reduce transactions costs, then the author give an expectation of information engineering construction supervision management.
Deeply influenced by the planning economic system, China's engineering consulting industry still lag behind the international norm, although the consulting concept has been introduced into mainland for about 20 years??DThe insufficient regulations and irrational enterprise system severely restrains the development of China's engineering consulting industry. After entering the WTO, China's consulting...
With the competition in the construction market is fierce increasingly, profit margin of construction enterprises is getting smaller and smaller,and cost control of construction projects become more and more important.The control of construction project cost becomes one of the cores in project management. Construction project management is a systematic, comprehensive, dynamic subject, requiring construction...
This paper analyzed the basis of construction and management of government investment projects theoretic, and summarized from developed countries and regions in their construction and management of government investment projects mature approach. Furthermore, on the basic of China's government investment projects in construction management for the pilot, proposed three basic management modes that suitable...
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