Showing papers in "International Journal of Project Management in 2012"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified the key factors impacting delay in Indian construction industry and established the relationship between the critical attributes for developing prediction models for assessing the impacts of these factors on delay.

TL;DR: In this paper, a questionnaire survey is carried out in the UK construction industry to explore the specific characteristics of supply chain relationships in construction and to assess their impact on project performance, and a supply chain relationship is described by key indicators in ten areas: mutual objectives, gain and pain sharing, trust, no-blame culture, joint working, communication, problem solving, risk allocation, performance measurement, and continuous improvement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the results of a survey that aims to explore World Bank project success factors and specifically the relationship between critical success factors (CSFs) and project success as perceived by World Bank Task Team Leaders (project supervisors).

TL;DR: The authors discusses different explanations for the performance problems exhibited by many megaprojects and examines the proposed governance solutions, and proposes a three-fold typology of explanations and solutions by examining authors' epistemological assumptions about decisionmaker cognition and about decision-maker views on the nature of the future.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the types of factors that significantly contribute to communication breakdown by identifying five distinct areas through a series of interviews with project team members in high-tech companies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify three different activity patterns, interpreted as distinctive roles in Project Portfolio Management Office (PPMO), and show a significant positive effect of PPMO's coordinating and controlling roles on performance in terms of project portfolio management quality.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effect of formalization at both project and portfolio levels and examined the moderating effect of project portfolio complexity on formalization, finding that portfolio formalization is associated with portfolio success.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider software development project success and failure from the supplier's perspective, and identify three success criteria from the suppliers' perspective: customer satisfaction, short-term business benefits, and long-time business benefits.

TL;DR: A literature review and four research experiences illustrate the advances achieved through the use of these three theoretical perspectives, and contribute to the development of this field by providing examples and guidance for theory development and future research.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a post refereeing approach for post refereeings in the sport of soccer. But this approach is not suitable for women's soccer. And the authors' final and acceptet version of the article,

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the reduction of complexity and its effects on the planning of mega infrastructure projects and show the conditions under which reducing complexity is beneficial or detrimental in a case study with interviews.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how rigorous termination of bad and troubled projects affects portfolio effectiveness and senior management's decisive role in this context, and conclude that there is an optimal degree of involvement, beyond which an additional involvement of senior managers results in negative effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, a questionnaire survey is carried out in the United Kingdom (UK) and the Republic of Ireland (ROI) to analyse the relationship between the use of incentives and the performance of a project.

TL;DR: In this article, a survey among 101 project managers was conducted to examine the interactions between six factors related to PMIS information quality and usage and their effect on decision making in a multi project environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the correlation of HRD strategies in employee training and motivation practices with teamwork improvement and task efficiency in construction projects, based on a combination of the literature appraisal and questionnaire survey.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that there are important underlying conceptual issues in benefits management which have practical implications and need to be recognised in the development of theory for BRM, by drawing on the author's experience from the 1990s and 2000s in working in the management of government-funded regeneration programmes in the UK.

TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for conceptualization of the relationship between ideation and project portfolio management in product development environment by relating ideation portfolio management, front end success, and Project portfolio success is presented, and lays the groundwork for further empirical research.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored how absorptive, innovative and adaptive capabilities within early project phases affect project and portfolio performances in pharmaceutical and biotechnology R&D organizations, using a sequential qualitative-quantitative mixed method.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how IT-enabled business projects can be managed to contribute value to the client organization, and they take a knowledge view of this issue, and conceptualize knowledge management as a three dimensional concept comprising knowledge stock, enabling environment and knowledge practices.

TL;DR: A new type of visual representation is introduced and it is shown that the creation of graphical network displays of projects and their interdependencies can provide benefits by supporting communication and strategic portfolio decision making.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of customer integration into project portfolio management on project portfolio success mediated through relationship value has been investigated, and relevant aspects for customer integration on the project portfolio level and interfaces for cross-functional integration of a customer portfolio representative within the PPM process are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the development of artificial neural networks ensemble and support vector machines classification models were used to predict project cost and schedule success, using status of early planning as the model inputs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to select the best portfolio of information system/information technology (IS/IT) projects while taking both project uncertainties (modeled as fuzzy variables) and project interactions into consideration simultaneously.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated patterns of knowledge governance practices in project-based organizations (PBOs) and found that informal governance mechanisms are more useful than formal when it comes to knowledge creating processes.

TL;DR: In this paper, a literature review highlights the need to open up the black box of collaboration within projects and encourages examination of both manager's coordination efforts and actors' motivation to cooperate, as well as the role played by HRM practices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the efficiency of controlling a project using a Monte-Carlo simulation study on fictitious and empirical project data and compared the results obtained on fictitious project data with additional tests performed on a set of real-life data from 8 Belgian companies from various sectors.

TL;DR: In this article, a mixed integer linear programming model that considers the potential quality loss cost (PQLC) in time-cost tradeoff problems is proposed, since individual activity quality is defined by conformance to project contractor requirements.

TL;DR: In this article, a fuzzy set theory-based extension of activity network scheduling techniques is proposed for estimating the working capital requirements in a real world road construction project and the benefits of the methodology and its subsequent computerization are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, a project scheduling system with calibrated and validated distributions and without requiring complex user input is presented, which is designed to enhance existing decision support systems (DSS) and thus can be implemented without sacrificing the investment already made in project management systems.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive literature review was conducted to gain an in-depth understanding of change management, and a questionnaire survey was conducted for change management in the Singapore construction industry.