Showing papers in "International Journal of Project Management in 2000"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a UK-wide postal questionnaire survey to assess the opinions of different types of organizations (consultants, contractors, and clients) in relation to the success factors and benefits of partnering.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the causes of delays on 130 public projects in Jordan and to aid construction managers in establishing adequate evaluation prior to the contract award using quantitative data, and found that the main causes of delay in construction of public projects relate to designers, user changes, weather, site conditions, late deliveries, economic conditions and increase in quantity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a study that focuses on the development of construction project managers and how they maintain their professional skills in a changing construction business environment, and identify the general knowledge and skill elements that are perceived as essential for developing project management competency through a survey of project managers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relationship between the ideas developed in the Critical Chain and the CPM/PERT approach and explored the relationships between the two approaches in the novel and the PERT approach.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the suitability of transformational leadership in conjunction with other critical success factors for managers of Information Technology/Systems projects and suggested an underlying yet flexible style characterised by organisational catalyst, intellectual stimulation, behavioural charisma, and contingent reward behaviours for enhanced leadership effectiveness.

TL;DR: In this article, the main requirements of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations are reviewed together with enforcement by the Health and Safety Executive, and an approach to design and management is recommended with increased client and designer involvement.

TL;DR: In this article, a learning framework is presented to foster successful co-operative strategic alliances between construction organizations, based on Rameses Associates and Lloyds TSB Insurance of the UK.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of politics in successful project management is discussed, identifying ways in which project managers can use politics in a positive and effective manner, while most of us view politics with distaste, effective managers are often those who are willing and able to employ appropriate political tactics to further their project goals.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study of the New Chinese Hotel project in China is presented to show how the interaction between cross-cultural management and construction project management can affect the outcome of a project.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between project budgets, cash flow, cost control and time schedules, and the theoretical effect that each can have on the net present value (NPV) of a project.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the UK Association for Project Management's current Project Management Body of Knowledge (BPK) and propose a new BPK as a basis for certifying competencies and benchmarking best practice and performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an analysis of the relative frequency of attention to ''Body of Knowledge'' topics of project management in the papers published in the International Journal of Project Management from 1984 to 1998.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between project budgets, cash flow, cost control and time schedules, and the theoretical effect that each can have on the net present value (NPV) of a project.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey was conducted for the major fifty industrial public firms in Jordan, and statistically analyzed to identify the use of Project Management tools and techniques and the obstacles to proper implementation of such tools.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the government initiatives and guarantees provided for BOT projects in China based on the Laibin B Power Plant project in mitigating the risks and draw the lessons for investing in future similar BOT project in China.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a new approach to the measurement of the effect of BPM on these key outputs using 15 cases derived from UK data within the UK construction industry.

TL;DR: In this article, an approach to the estimation and evaluation of uncertainty is described for ease of use, designed to be easier to use than probability impact grid based approaches, and it links qualitative approaches in this format to quantitative approaches.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on a quantitative study of 100 companies which had attempted to move towards a more collaborative relationship with another organisation, concluding that 46 had succeeded and 54 had failed in their attempt to implement supply chain partnering.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered the relationship between the owner and the ECC during the development and implementation of capital investment projects and presented a quantitative methodology for structuring incentive schemes.

TL;DR: Although the majority of tasks are overestimated, the mean error is an underestimate of about 1%.

TL;DR: In this paper, a risk reduction strategy in winning and managing build-operate-transfer (BOT) concession through positive management of differences between enterprise stakeholders, proactive control of variation of critical risk factors and internal competency through strong and entrepreneurial leadership of consortium teams is proposed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey was conducted using the principles of quota sampling where 93 questionnaires were distributed to 11 owners, 59 contractors and 23 consultants in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.

TL;DR: The paper describes a particular implementation of the Project Management Simulation Engine called Contract & Construct, which models a contract management approach in a large construction project and shows how its database implementation can support the generation of customised simulations for different projects.

TL;DR: This work discusses the concept of project evolution, which is defined as the sequence of project states (path) with the dates of transition between states, and derives equations that put into relation the duration of the project and those of every possible PERT-path.

TL;DR: VM in Hong Kong is engaged in a struggle for survival, and whether VM is able to make the transition from the infancy stage to the development stage will much depend on the willingness of government to take a leading role, and on the attitudes of clients and construction professionals.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a simple, transparent approach for developing competitive bids, based on an appreciation of cost uncertainty and estimates of the probability of winning with different levels of bid.

TL;DR: By introducing the project plan of business strategy implementation, the efficiency of management activity in the whole company is increased and the improvement of efficiency of the entire process of strategic management is demonstrated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the possible reasons for recurring construction problems encountered in electrical transmission substation projects and uncover unusual factors to achieve this, unstructured interviews were conducted A list of possible reasons were collected The reasons were found to be interrelated and have mutual influence The study revealed four unusual factors: management did not care, inherited problems from earlier phases, perception of project success were not the same, and projects were completed anyway.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how correctly the ISO-9000 Standards were implemented by a construction company and examined whether the employees of the company understood what the ISO 9000 standards were all about.

TL;DR: Stochastic Budget Simulation (SBS) as mentioned in this paper combines stochastic simulation with basic facets of the successive principle to avoid the assessment of dependencies between cost items in the budget, and it is made operational with a software application.