Showing papers in "International Journal of Project Management in 2006"

TL;DR: In this article, a survey on time performance of different types of construction projects in Saudi Arabia was conducted to determine the causes of delay and their importance according to each of the project participants, i.e., the owner, consultant and the contractor.

TL;DR: The Rethinking Project Management (RPM) project management research network as mentioned in this paper was created by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to define a research agenda aimed at enriching and extending the subject of project management beyond its current conceptual foundations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors build on discussions that took place over a series of meetings in the UK of the Rethinking Project Management Network, where the management of uncertainty is seen as a necessary condition for effective project management.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that while a great deal is written about traditional project management, we know very little about the "actuality" of project based working and management.

TL;DR: In this article, a formal system model is used as a framing device to deliver the benefits of taking account of critical success factors while avoiding the problems associated with "critical success factors" that give rise to the criticisms.

TL;DR: In this article, the extent of integration achieved by construction project teams managed by award-winning construction managers within successfully completed projects is investigated, and it is concluded that either fully integrated teams are not necessary for effective project delivery within the industry, or the sector must overcome existing organisational and behavioural barriers if further improvements in project performance are to be fully realised in the future.

TL;DR: A semantic model and taxonomy is presented that represents the key concepts underlying stakeholder involvement in PPP infrastructure projects and has the potential to act as a core for knowledge representation, sharing and reuse in the multidisciplinary domain of SI.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the views of one such internal set of stakeholders: Programmer/Developers, Project Managers and Customer Account Managers, and find surprising uniformity in different constituents of this particular group of stakeholders and all of them overwhelmingly considered meeting the "scope" of software projects, which comprises the functionality and quality of the project outcome, as the highest determinant of success.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider two key themes from the Rethinking Project Management Network activities: projectification and managing multiple projects, and discuss the development of the concept of projectification over the past decade.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the classic earned value performance indicators SV and SPI with the newly developed earned schedule performance indicators S( t ) and SPI( t ), and compare the three methods from literature to forecast total project duration.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study on a tollway project in Indonesia is carried out to discover the perception of proper risk allocation of each party involved and utilises the findings as the foundation to develop the concept of good project governance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify and ascertain which factors affect a project manager's performance in the private and public sector and identify the working environment variables that affect the performance of project managers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the development of project management as a profession and the role of the formal BOKs in this professionalization, and suggest a research agenda for critiquing, contributing to, and maintaining both the formal body of knowledge and the more general body-of-knowledge relevant to the needs of the discipline.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the major risks in implementing public sector works, and the ways that the application of public private partnership (PPP) can help to manage risks in project delivery.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated psychosocial aspects of work in multi-project settings and how project members and project managers at operational level perceive their work situation and concluded that work in a multi-proje...

TL;DR: The field of project management continues to develop in response to changing emphases in the management community and the demands of new project management application areas as mentioned in this paper, by analyzing articles in the International Journal of Project Management and the Project Management Journal.

TL;DR: The EPSRC-funded Rethinking Project Management Network produced several insights into new directions for project management theory and practice, highlighting gaps between current theory and practise in several areas as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey was developed and sent to a random sample of the top five hundred US construction companies to determine the correlation between management commitment to safety and the frequency of construction-related injuries and illnesses.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper used a questionnaire to survey Chinese construction supervising engineers to find out how the engineers evaluate project success and to what extent key project stakeholders' performance correlates with project success.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between intuition and improvisation in the context of the management of projects and found that there is a positive relationship between the use of intuitive judgements and experience.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the dynamics related to project flexibility, both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective, and find that the opinion on project flexibility held by stakeholders can to a large extent be explained by their incentives related to the projects.

TL;DR: A review of delay analysis methods can be found in this article, which summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of widely used delay analysis techniques, including as-planned vs. as-built, impact as-planned, collapsed asbuilt, and time impact analysis methods.

TL;DR: In this paper, an empirically based theoretical framework was developed to address the configuration of PM as influenced by the business strategy and vice versa, and they found that business strategy realizes its influence on PM via the competitive attributes of business strategy (time-to-market, quality, cost).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the results of a study of the types, causes, and frequency of construction claims in the emirates of Dubai and Abu Dhabi in UAE using a data from 124 claims for a variety of projects in the two emirate.

TL;DR: The study aims at developing an alternative and efficient optimization methodology for solving the RCPSB and opening the application of PSO to the optimization issues for construction project management.

TL;DR: A hierarchical structure comprising 31 criteria is reported here to illustrate the performance and characteristics of the technique proposed, which concerns an analysis of the proposal management process in a company which decorates public garden and park structures.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the risks that Singapore-based architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) firms face when working in India and investigate the risk response techniques adopted by them.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the effectiveness of project management in terms of organizational structures, technical competency, leadership ability and the characteristics of an effective project manager and find that planning/organizing, networking and informing are the most significant managerial practices in the leadership behavior of project managers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on the development of a management tool designed to provide practical guidance on the effective management of collaborative R&D projects, based on case studies by the authors involving the automotive and aerospace industries.