Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijpom.2023.10058183
Ahmad Ebrahimi, Mohsen Nozohouri, Rouhollah Khakpour
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijpom.2023.132712
Gabriella Haász, Katalin Czakó, Zoltán Baracskai
Significant research on R&D project evaluation methods is feasible when we have clear data and conditions for measurement. In university projects, it is unwise to use directly the reference points and practices of industrial or independent labs. As a result, the method and the model introduced in this paper are adapted to find the most informative success factors for engineering R&D projects when the non-professional project manager's experience is the primary source of data. The model was developed using knowledge acquisition (KA), while 21 projects within the same domain were recorded in the knowledge base through semi-structured interviews with experienced project managers during a fine-tuning process. The contribution of this paper is the logical rules and the attributes by which we can understand the project managers' mindset in R&D projects of a higher education institutions. The paper includes an evaluation of the projects as a case study.
{"title":"R&D project evaluation at a university with knowledge acquisition and knowledge engineering","authors":"Gabriella Haász, Katalin Czakó, Zoltán Baracskai","doi":"10.1504/ijpom.2023.132712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijpom.2023.132712","url":null,"abstract":"Significant research on R&D project evaluation methods is feasible when we have clear data and conditions for measurement. In university projects, it is unwise to use directly the reference points and practices of industrial or independent labs. As a result, the method and the model introduced in this paper are adapted to find the most informative success factors for engineering R&D projects when the non-professional project manager's experience is the primary source of data. The model was developed using knowledge acquisition (KA), while 21 projects within the same domain were recorded in the knowledge base through semi-structured interviews with experienced project managers during a fine-tuning process. The contribution of this paper is the logical rules and the attributes by which we can understand the project managers' mindset in R&D projects of a higher education institutions. The paper includes an evaluation of the projects as a case study.","PeriodicalId":38056,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Project Organisation and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136029739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijpom.2023.132711
Elisa Tinoco, Rui M. Lima, Diana Mesquita, Mariane C. Souza
Personal communication is one of the factors having high impact on the success of projects. This work aims studying the usefulness of the application of scenarios for development of personal communication competence. Based on literature review, and considering the professional experience of the researchers, three scenarios were developed and applied. The data collection process was carried out in two moments with 24 participants: during a three-hour training, with observation and a questionnaire to collect the participants' perspective; after the application, through a focus group and narratives. The results suggest that, according to the participants, the scenarios enhance the development of personal communication competence, but also that it may depend on a good conceptual background support, and that learners demonstrate availability and openness to this type of approach. This exploratory study presents scenarios as an innovative approach to increase the knowledge related to the development of personal communication competence in project management.
{"title":"Using scenarios for the development of personal communication competence in project management","authors":"Elisa Tinoco, Rui M. Lima, Diana Mesquita, Mariane C. Souza","doi":"10.1504/ijpom.2023.132711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijpom.2023.132711","url":null,"abstract":"Personal communication is one of the factors having high impact on the success of projects. This work aims studying the usefulness of the application of scenarios for development of personal communication competence. Based on literature review, and considering the professional experience of the researchers, three scenarios were developed and applied. The data collection process was carried out in two moments with 24 participants: during a three-hour training, with observation and a questionnaire to collect the participants' perspective; after the application, through a focus group and narratives. The results suggest that, according to the participants, the scenarios enhance the development of personal communication competence, but also that it may depend on a good conceptual background support, and that learners demonstrate availability and openness to this type of approach. This exploratory study presents scenarios as an innovative approach to increase the knowledge related to the development of personal communication competence in project management.","PeriodicalId":38056,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Project Organisation and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136029751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijpom.2023.10056537
Bryan L. Mesmer, Sheri Leder, Kristin Weger
{"title":"Eliciting and Exploring Large-Scale Group Preferences to Gain Insight into Group Representation and Convergence","authors":"Bryan L. Mesmer, Sheri Leder, Kristin Weger","doi":"10.1504/ijpom.2023.10056537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijpom.2023.10056537","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38056,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Project Organisation and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73136954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijpom.2023.10052211
Zoltán Baracskai, Katalin Czakó, G. Haász
{"title":"R&D project evaluation at a university with knowledge acquisition and Knowledge Engineering","authors":"Zoltán Baracskai, Katalin Czakó, G. Haász","doi":"10.1504/ijpom.2023.10052211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijpom.2023.10052211","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38056,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Project Organisation and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81955814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijpom.2023.10051353
A. Berrado, Ghizlane EL BOK
{"title":"An integrated framework for diversified project portfolio selection","authors":"A. Berrado, Ghizlane EL BOK","doi":"10.1504/ijpom.2023.10051353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijpom.2023.10051353","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38056,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Project Organisation and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91251634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijpom.2023.10058184
Marvin Opiyo Ambala, A. Ghapanchi
{"title":"A taxonomy of software technologies for empowering managing projects","authors":"Marvin Opiyo Ambala, A. Ghapanchi","doi":"10.1504/ijpom.2023.10058184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijpom.2023.10058184","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38056,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Project Organisation and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90472088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijpom.2023.132713
Ahmad Ebrahimi, Mohsen Nozohouri, Rouhollah Khakpour
This paper recommends a stepwise method employing learning curves (LCs) to predict the man-hour for performing activities in engineering projects. It goes beyond existing applications of LCs and debates what specific neglected issues should be included and how they can be predicted through LCs. Focusing on man-hour prediction in engineering projects through LCs is not limited to improving the human resource allocation for performing activities, where, it has significant impacts on the improvement of different issues such as labour costs, quality of engineering services, time management in engineering projects, productivity, and competition capability in tenders. This paper identifies the best-known and widely used LCs in the literature and provides analysis in a real-life engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracting company. Hence, the actual man-hour data for a specified engineering activity is gathered in a number of consecutive projects and analysed to select the best fit LC for prediction.
{"title":"Human resource allocation in engineering projects: a stepwise approach using learning curve for predicting the required man-hour","authors":"Ahmad Ebrahimi, Mohsen Nozohouri, Rouhollah Khakpour","doi":"10.1504/ijpom.2023.132713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijpom.2023.132713","url":null,"abstract":"This paper recommends a stepwise method employing learning curves (LCs) to predict the man-hour for performing activities in engineering projects. It goes beyond existing applications of LCs and debates what specific neglected issues should be included and how they can be predicted through LCs. Focusing on man-hour prediction in engineering projects through LCs is not limited to improving the human resource allocation for performing activities, where, it has significant impacts on the improvement of different issues such as labour costs, quality of engineering services, time management in engineering projects, productivity, and competition capability in tenders. This paper identifies the best-known and widely used LCs in the literature and provides analysis in a real-life engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracting company. Hence, the actual man-hour data for a specified engineering activity is gathered in a number of consecutive projects and analysed to select the best fit LC for prediction.","PeriodicalId":38056,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Project Organisation and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136029743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijpom.2023.10054371
Vyron Damasiotis, P. Fitsilis
{"title":"A complexity scoring model for evaluating complexity of software projects","authors":"Vyron Damasiotis, P. Fitsilis","doi":"10.1504/ijpom.2023.10054371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijpom.2023.10054371","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38056,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Project Organisation and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81985077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1504/ijpom.2023.132722
Jenifer Walsh Robertson, Gregory N. Stock
The demand for professionally certified project managers in information technology projects has grown significantly since the mid-1980s, and managers associate certification with project manager competence. However, there is little evidence that certification is related to the project quality. We therefore focus primarily on testing whether there is a positive relationship between project management certification and project quality. We also consider how project quality is related project complexity, and we employ organisational information processing theory to examine contingent relationships between these variables. Our results from a sample of 1,444 information technology projects in an international consulting firm show that contrary to expectations, certification was significantly related to poorer project quality. Complexity, as hypothesised, was negatively related to project quality. What was more surprising was a finding that project management certification amplified the negative relationship between project complexity and project quality. We conclude with a discussion of implications for practitioners and researchers.
{"title":"The effects of project management certification and project complexity on project quality in information technology projects: an organisational information processing perspective","authors":"Jenifer Walsh Robertson, Gregory N. Stock","doi":"10.1504/ijpom.2023.132722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijpom.2023.132722","url":null,"abstract":"The demand for professionally certified project managers in information technology projects has grown significantly since the mid-1980s, and managers associate certification with project manager competence. However, there is little evidence that certification is related to the project quality. We therefore focus primarily on testing whether there is a positive relationship between project management certification and project quality. We also consider how project quality is related project complexity, and we employ organisational information processing theory to examine contingent relationships between these variables. Our results from a sample of 1,444 information technology projects in an international consulting firm show that contrary to expectations, certification was significantly related to poorer project quality. Complexity, as hypothesised, was negatively related to project quality. What was more surprising was a finding that project management certification amplified the negative relationship between project complexity and project quality. We conclude with a discussion of implications for practitioners and researchers.","PeriodicalId":38056,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Project Organisation and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136029742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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