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Project Management: A Managerial Approach
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Projects in Contemporary Organization as discussed by the authors is a collection of projects in contemporary organization, where the project manager is the project coordinator and the project budget is budgeted and cost estimations are made.Abstract:
Projects in Contemporary Organization. PROJECT INITIATION. Strategic Management and Project Selection. The Project Manager. Project Organization. Project Planning. Conflict and Negotiation. PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION. Budgeting and Cost Estimation. Scheduling. Resource Allocation. Monitoring and Information Systems. Project Control. PROJECT TERMINATION. Project Auditing. Project Termination. Epilogue. Photo Credits. Name Index. Subject Index.read more
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A new framework for determining critical success/failure factors in projects
Walid Belassi,Oya Iemeli Tukel +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a new scheme that classifies the critical factors, and describes the impacts of these factors on project performance, and the results are encouraging, in that practitioners support the use of this scheme for determining and analysing critical success factors and how systems respond to these factors.
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No project is an island: linking projects to history and context
Mats Engwall,Mats Engwall +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how the interior processes of a project are influenced by its historical and organizational context and suggest that future research on project management needs to extend its temporal scope, analyzing how project practices evolve through history over prior, present, and future projects, as well as its organizational scope.
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On Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Complexity in Project Management
TL;DR: A model of a project as a payoff function that depends on the state of the world and the choice of a sequence of actions is developed, which establishes a rigorous language that allows the project manager to judge the adequacy of the available project information at the outset, choose an appropriate combination of strategies, and set a supporting project infrastructure.
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An integrated framework for project portfolio selection
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a framework for project portfolio selection by separating the work into distinct stages, each stage accomplishes a particular objective and creates inputs to the next stage, and users are free to choose the techniques they find the most suitable for each stage.
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Alternative research paradigms in operations
TL;DR: A review and critique of the research in operations, itemizing the shortcomings identified by researchers in the field, is presented in this article, where the authors suggest a new research agenda with an integrative view of operations' role in organizations, a wider application of alternative research methodologies, greater emphasis on benefit to the operations manager, cross-disciplinary research with other functional areas, a heavier emphasis on sociotechnical analysis over the entire production system, and empirical field studies.