The blended mental space as an environmental for the intelligent data acquisition

Abstract

The implementation of any project requires not only the development of project documents: the criteria for the project success, WBS-structure, the Matrix of Responsibilities, the budget, the Gantt diagram, etc., but also an integrated understanding of all these documents by all participants in the project process: stakeholders, project manager and movable context. As practice shows, this integrated understanding may be absent. This is a typical situation for countries in which the project approach is only being introduced or is in a state of development. The integrated understanding arises when the participants of the project-oriented process exist in an integrated project mental space. This is the space of an integrated project understanding, starting from the values, mission, vision, strategy, goals, objectives and results of the project until the approaches and methods of project implementation. The integrated mental space existing is especially very important for projects where a creation of a new automatized informational system will be a project's product. The integrated project mental space appears as a result of the project activity and represents a mental space that includes the knowledge, skills, and practices of all participants in the project-oriented process. We will call this space as a Blended Mental Space (hereinafter — the BMS). The aim of the BMS is the creation and functioning of a mental space in the process of the project implementation. The mental space creates an unambiguous understanding of the project process for all its participants, beginning with the birth of the project and until its closure. The main goal of the research is studying the BMS creation, development, and function during the project implementation. The result of the research will be presented in the example of the infrastructure informational project “Rural Land Titling and Cadastre System Development”, which was implemented in Ukraine. It was one of the biggest investment infrastructure project in Ukraine.