Characteristics Of Project Management Research Articles

Модель оценки вероятности успеха проекта в коммерческом банке

The purpose of this research is to develop a methodology for modeling the probability of a project’s success and to realize a prototype model to develop recommendations for more efficient project and portfolio management in a bank. The work contains 40 foreign and 10 Russian-language sources. The first part of the study covered the theoretical foundations of project and portfolio management. The features of project management in banks are analyzed, the examples of factors and criteria for project success are given. Approaches to modeling in problems of binary classification were considered. In the second part, the main prerequisites, assumptions and limitations were described, a high-level model concept was proposed, and the author’s own modeling methodology was developed for estimating the probability of project success. In the third part, a prototype model for assessing the probability of project success was created. In addition to the tasks performed, recommendations were developed based on the results obtained: factors that predetermined the success of the project were identified and a flowchart of the implementation of the model system was compiled, consisting of a static and dynamic module into the project / project portfolio management processes. Further research directions were identified, including testing other modeling approaches (for example, using neural networks), assessing the economic effect of introducing a system of models, clustering projects in order to identify groups of similar features and apply appropriate management influences to successful project management.

Impact of Project Manager Competencies on Project Success: Case of Social Projects in the City of Agadir, Morocco

The question of project manager competencies and especially in social projects is a key issue for social organizations seeking to progress and achieve success. If the manager has an important role to play with regard to the social organization, he’s however dependent on his behavioral, professional and personal capacities. The purpose of this paper is to show, on the basis of a quantitative study carried out among 120 managers of social projects in cooperatives located in the city of Agadir (Morocco), that the success of projects is conditioned by the leadership skills. Consequently, factors related to behavioral skills such as Solidarity; Involvement; Patience; Creativity; Empathy; Motivation; Trust; Commitment; Self-esteem; Transparency; Self-control; Discipline and other factors related to professional characteristics and personal characteristics of project managers prove a positive and significant relationship with the criterion of success studied.

Research of the toolkit features for the evaluation and development of project-oriented management in a full cycle engineering company

Introduction. Analysis of existing foreign and Russian project management maturity models revealed the absence of tools for assessing the maturity of project management, which would take into account the specifics of the functioning of engineering companies and the implementation of engineering projects. The uniformity of such models limits the list of evaluated aspects of project management, which does not allow to fully cover the project management processes operating in engineering companies. Such processes should include engineering, management of intangible assets, control and acceptance of the results of engineering works, management of construction and installation works, and so on. To solve the problem, it is necessary to develop special tools for the assessment and development of project management, which will take into account engineering-specific processes. The toolkit will allow to quantify the degree of implementation of the project approach to the activities of an engineering company and to plan the continuous improvement of the processes and tools of project management in it. The subject of the research is the development of tools for assessing and developing project-oriented management in a full-cycle engineering company.
 Materials and methods. Applied the method of comparative analysis, survey method and method of semi-structured interviews.
 Results. The article formulates the features of project management in engineering companies. The main types of maturity models of project management are considered, their distinctive features are revealed. Tools for the evaluation and development of project management for the Russian engineering company full cycle are formulated. The assessment of the levels of formalization of project management processes was carried out, their current and target states were determined. Set of measures for the development of processes and tools of project management is planned.
 Conclusions. The toolkit for project management evaluation and development proposed in the article allows to carry out structural analysis of project management processes and the level of their formalization, to implement improvements based on the results of evaluation not only in the engineering company under consideration, but also in project-oriented organizations implementing similar projects.

FORMATION OF THE PROJECT COMPETENCE OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS IN INFORMATION, LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE SERVICES IN A DIGITAL SOCIETY

The article substantiates the importance of forming the project competence of future specialists in information, library and archive services with the help of the project management information systems. The essence of project development in the library sphere is specified. The key features of the project activity of specialists in information, library and archive services under the conditions of digitalization, as well as the specifics of its informatization, are analyzed. The special features of project management as a component of library management are described. Some project management information systems are characterized. The structure of library workers’ project competence (value-motivational (axiological), knowledge-content (cognitive), technological (activity-practical) components) is specified. The value-motivational component is determined by a set of stable motives (personal, cognitive, professional ones) and suggests a conscious positive attitude to the project activity automation, readiness for its implementation. The knowledge-content component assumes having knowledge of the project activity automation. The technological component includes the ability to perform the project activity automation, to feel free in the information environment, etc. The results of the experimental verification of the efficiency of pedagogical conditions in order to form the project competence of future specialists in information, library and archive services (illustrated by the implementation of the author’s special course "Information Systems for Project Management in the Professional Activities of Information, Library and Archive Specialists") are presented. The implementation of the author's special course has visualized certain positive changes in the levels of the project competence development of students in experimental groups compared with those in control ones. The results of the obtained data analysis made it possible to ascertain the positive dynamics of changes in the quantitative indicators of the levels of the project competence development of future specialists in librarianship.

Application of System Engineering to Project Management

Task administration is the procedure through which work is instated, arranged, executed, and controlled by a group to accomplish an objective. Since project management activities are different from normal business activities that are conducted every day, project management calls for special technical and management skills amongst team members. The successful completion of a project depends largely on systems engineering and the management of various programs. Systems engineering refers to an interdisciplinary approach that facilitates the realization and success of complex systems. The purpose of system engineering is to, therefore, influence the whole system through various cohesive subsystems. The principles of system engineering are synonymous with most characteristics of project management. System engineering is, therefore, applicable to advance project management. This paper looks at the application of system engineering to project management.

FEATURES OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS

Introduction:management of educational systems is currently focused on optimizing activities - new solutions are needed to intensify the basic processes of an educational organization, new requirements for saving all types of resources are highlighted, new approaches to personnel management and making strategic decisions on the development of an educational organization are identified. Of great interest at the present time is the project approach to the management of the educational system: being focused on a rapidly changing environment and constant limited resources, it most accurately meets the realities of today's educational environment and provides opportunities for the innovative development of an educational organization.Materials and methods:the article explores the features of project management of the educational system. The paper reveals various approaches to management, analyzes the characteristic features of the management of the educational system, identifies patterns and principles of project management. Analyzing the project management of the educational system, the leading schools of project management in business and education, the author highlights the features of project management, which make it possible to consider it more effective than others, describes the practical results of the implementation of the project approach in university management.Results:the work demonstrates the effects of introducing a project approach to the management of the educational system, shows how project management allows to solve the tasks of development of an educational organization, accumulate efforts to solve complex issues of activity, combine human and material resources for various purposes.Discussion and Conclusions:project management is a promising way of developing the educational system, allowing to solve complex tasks, build parallel processes and form forward-looking solutions in the context of global educational competition and high uncertainty in the educational environment.

УПРАВЛІННЯ ПРОЕКТОМ ВПРОВАДЖЕННЯ СИСТЕМИ ЕКОЛОГІЧНОГО МЕНЕДЖМЕНТУ У МУНІЦИПАЛЬНИХ УТВОРЕННЯХ

Environment sharp deterioration on municipalities’ territory as a result of increased production capacity of new productions and aggravation of their impact on nature; the population growth and the increase in hazardous waste production volume, the rise of the vehicles number causes the need for the implementation of environmental management system in municipal management. The process of environmental management system creating and implementing in the municipal administration involves the development of environmental policy, taking into account the interests of all stakeholders; assessment of the current situation; establishing performance characteristics to be improved; devel-opment of ecological program; practical implementation of the planned activity; monitoring, corrective action, analysis and audit.The purpose of the article is to determine the aim, tasks and main classification characteristics of the environmental management system implementation project, coverage of key stakeholders and management features of such a project. The essence of the project of implementation of environmental management system is described, its classification is determined, the project constraints and possible risks are identified. The aim and main objectives of the project are formulated. Analysis of the environmental management system implementation project stakeholders in municipality play an important role for the success of the project, therefore the article outlines the main stakeholders of the project and the risks associated with them. The identified features of project man-agement of implementation of environmental management system point to the need for the use of pre-ventive management in the process of its implementation, mandatory inclusion in the project of the methods of work with stakeholders and taking into account the processes of managing by environmental changes at all stages of the life cycle.

Cloud Service for HPC Management: Ideas and Appliance

The paper presents a cloud service aimed to solve promising nanotechnology problems on supercomputer systems. At the present stage of computer technology evolution it is possible to study the properties and processes in complex systems at molecular and even atomic levels. Such calculations require the use of high performance computing systems of various types, for example, GRID systems and HPC clusters. Considering the time consuming computational tasks, the need arises of software for automatic and unified monitoring of such computations, as well as unified environment for data preparation and storage. The preliminary result of the work is a prototype of the complex cloud environment, implemented as a KIAM Multilogin service and an application software accessible from users virtual machines. It consists of a virtual desktop environment, and the web-based application for calculation management, that includes project-management features, remote task execution abilities, storage and monitoring features and basic pre- and post-processing capabilities. The first applications of the service were the software packages GIMM_NANO and Flow_and_Particles, designed to solve the actual problems of nanoelectronics, laser nanotechnology, multiscale problems of applied gas dynamics. In this paper the main ideas, the cloud service based on, the inner structure of the service and the technologies used to build it are considered.

МОДЕЛЬ УПРАВЛІННЯ КРЕАТИВНІСТЮ ТА РИЗИКАМИ КОМАНД ОСВІТНІХ ПРОЕКТІВ У СФЕРІ ПІДВИЩЕННЯ КВАЛІФІКАЦІЇ

Although higher educational institutions have implemented project management in their activities since last 10-15 years, they still continue to use outdated approaches to the management of educa-tional projects in the field of higher education, often passing experience of organizing and managing student education in the field of higher education to the field of professional development that is not logical and correct. These approaches require the improvement of existing experience and adaptation of project-oriented management of educational projects in the field of further training, as adult educa-tion organization has significant differences from the organization of teaching children and students. In the article, the author suggests to copy the process of cutting diamonds in project manage-ment, namely, to show the common features of diamonds processing with the management of teams of educational projects in the field of further training and relationship of project risks with the creativity of project team. It is a thorough comprehensive analysis of these aspects that proves relevance and points the ways to eliminate the risks that can affect the success of an educational project in the field of further training in the management of the team. The article presents and describes the parameters of creativity of educational projects management and the risks associated with people who have a significant impact on the success of the pro-ject. It is shown how the process of creative team management of an educational project in the field of further training can influence the achievement of the project goal. The article reveals the common features of project management and the diamond assessment system, and studies the relationship be-tween the management of educational project in the field of further training and diamond cut.

Process management of intellectual capital formation

The article deals with the analytical approach to the formation of the structural and logical model of management of intellectual capital of construction enterprises through the application of the process approach. The aim of the article is to find the analytical approaches to the formation of the process management of intellectual capital construction companies in order to provide a strategic vector of development. The author consider the specificity of the construction industry, which includes the features of project management. Project management is closely related to the management of individual processes. Accordingly, to increase the efficiency of the use of intellectual capital of construction companies, it is proposed to consider the production processes separately to determine the possibilities for their qualitatively new transformation. The process approach allows for maximum specificity construction industry and allows structuring process management of intellectual capital in terms of the most effective mechanisms for its implementation. The study theoretically describes the category of intellectual capital, taking into account the specificity of the construction defined as the branch, which is presented by the authors as a system, a multi-component category, meets the requirements for ensuring the effective management of construction enterprises in accordance with the generated requirements for efficiency, liquidity and financial performance of sustainability and the assessment of their property state. According to the multi-component categories of intellectual capital, the paper develops a set of information-analytical maintenance of management categories of intellectual capital with the indication of management processes of planning system. On the basis of this, the system of information and analytical support for the management of intellectual capital of construction enterprises is formed. In general, the authors develop and describe the intellectual capital management processes, based on which the authors propose the model of the process management of intellectual capital construction enterprises; this model takes into account the specificity of the construction industry, the project nature of the activity and the specificity of the use of intellectual capital in the construction industries. The developed model determines the main directions of construction processes, their rationalization by calculating the most effective model for the construction enterprise intellectual capital management.

Empirical Research on Project Management Performance Evaluation

In the project management, there are many indicators that affect the performance evaluation. In order to optimize the project management finally, we need to understand and grasp the whole process of project management and the achievements of management. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the performance of project management. We summarize the existing project management and establish a sound project management performance evaluation system to meet the needs of project managers. Through the construction project management characteristics, combined with fuzzy evaluation method, the project management performance evaluation of the contents of the index system to make an accurate assessment.

Influence of construction organization project managers’ personal qualities on their professional efficiency

The work was aimed at studying the personal characteristics of project managers that affect the effectiveness of their professional activities. The study involved project managers working in construction companies, with different work experience. In the course of the research, the questionnaire "Satisfaction with the work of manager" was used to assess the level of satisfaction of project managers with their professional activities, the following methods were used to study personal qualities: the COS technique (communicative and organizational propensities), the technique of diagnosing a personality for motivating success and avoiding failures of T. Ehlers, "Big Five" test, multi-level personal questionnaire "Adaptability". To effectively perform their professional activities, the project manager should have a number of social and psychological knowledge and skills, knowledge of the industry's activities and the market in which the company specializes. According to the results of the research, such personal qualities as communicative and organizational abilities, motivational orientation of the person, consciousness, emotional stability, extraversion, openness, tendency to work in a team contribute to increase of the efficiency of the project manager's work.

Creative economy as a social technology approach

PropósitoO estudo tem como objetivo discutir as características na economia criativa em favelas e seu potencial em termos de desenvolvimento social a partir da comparação entre a teoria sobre economia criativa e as características das iniciativas mapeadas na favela da Mangueira.Metodologia/AbordagemA pesquisa utilizou ferramentas de metodologia qualitativa e esteve baseado em revisão de literatura. Foram mapeadas as iniciativas de economia criativa no território da Mangueira e realizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas e um questionário com perguntas fechadas com os responsáveis. Os dados coletados foram tratados com o método de análise de conteúdo.ResultadosA pesquisa mapeou 17 iniciativas associadas aos setores da economia criativa na favela da Mangueira, no Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As iniciativas desenvolvem atividades culturais e artísticas que conscientizam os jovens da comunidade sobre a história de suas famílias, o que promove o fortalecimento de laços sociais e a capacitação individual, contribuindo para o empreendedorismo local.Implicações práticasA teoria utilizada no Brasil para a elaboração de políticas públicas de promoção da economia criativa aponta para a presença de aspectos culturais e simbólicos nas atividades econômicas como recursos para a geração de renda. No entanto, é importante entender como isso se aplica em contextos diferentes, que podem ter ou não algumas características do capital humano e físico apontadas como essenciais pela teoria para a promoção da economia criativa.Originalidade/ValorOs resultados desta pesquisa vão além da teoria da economia criativa e destacam características de gestão de projetos e impactos no desenvolvimento social que demonstram como a dinâmica da economia criativa nas favelas da Mangueira também representa um caso de inovação social utilizando ferramentas de tecnologia social.

Application of project management to disaster resilience

In this paper, we apply project management concepts and frameworks to the context of disaster resilience and examine how groups can increase the disaster resilience of a community. Based on our literature review and case study methodology, we develop a model that draws upon the relevant literatures in project management, operations management, disaster management, and organizational behaviour; we then compare that model with 12 disaster-related cases supported by four Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in India. Our model measures disaster resilience using both an encompassing measure we refer to as Total Cost to Community (TCC) that captures the interrelatedness of level of recovery (deliverables), speed of recovery (time), and loss minimization (cost) at a community group level, as well as through learning (single domain or alternate domain). The model indicates that the external elements of the disaster management process (scale, goal complexity, immediacy, and stakeholder variance) influence the internal characteristics of disaster project management (information demands and uncertainty), which in turn influence disaster resilience. The level of community group processes (group strength, group continuity, and group capacity) also influences learning, both directly and indirectly, through internal characteristics of project management. In addition, the relationship between the external elements of disaster recovery and the internal characteristics of disaster project management is moderated by resources available. This model provides interesting new avenues for future theory and research, such as creating operations research models to identify the trigger points for groups becoming effective and exploring the quantification of TCC, a new construct developed in this research. Ultimately, this model can provide a roadmap for NGOs and government entities interested in building disaster resilience among micro-enterprises in vulnerable communities.

Application of the Theory of Constraints for Project Management

AbstractThe large variability of internal and external factors is a serious problem hampering production management. To meet the standards and at the same time ensure the viability of production it is necessary to quickly respond to problems that arise during production processes, and to adequately correct plans. Measures taken in the management of madeto-order production are frequently single and unique, and therefore resemble the features of project management. The paper discusses the project management method derived from the theory of constraints – CCPM. The paper describes an original algorithm for CCPM implementation and presents the results of success CCPM implementation in a company from the Wielkopolska region. The implementation of CCPM resulted in improved timeliness of order delivery, improved communication and standardization of processes related to order delivery.

1306 プロジェクトマネジャーの個人特性と業績(一般セッション)

1306 プロジェクトマネジャーの個人特性と業績(一般セッション)

Characteristic features of project management in small and medium-sized enterprises

The trend of specificity in studies on small and medium-sized enterprises management focuses on the search for characteristic qualitative and quantitative features distinguishing these entities from others, particularly from large enterprises. Research conducted within this trend may concern the general characteristics of small and medium-sized companies, as well as their functional characteristics connected with particular areas of management. One such area of growing importance for today’s organizations is project management. This approach plays an important role in a dynamic, complex and uncertain environment, providing a response to accelerated competition, increased economic pressures, and rapid technological change. Use the project management by small and medium-sized enterprises enables cost reduction and facilitates the introduction of new products and services to the market, primarily including innovative solutions in response to individual and changing client requirements. However, project management should be implemented with consideration for the individual needs and possibilities of specific business entities, including SMEs. Taking this facts into consideration, the goal of the paper is to identify and evaluate select areas related to qualitative characteristics of project management in SMEs. The analysis refers to individual phases of a project life cycle, is of comparative nature, and is based on the results of studies conducted on a sample of 563 small and medium-sized enterprises and 334 large enterprises. The test of the difference between two population proportions was used to identify the areas of project management characteristic to SMEs statistically. Based on the study results, five research hypotheses have been verified concerning the basic goals, role of the owner, inter- organizational cooperation, and limited formalization in the process of project management in small and medium-sized enterprises.

MODEL OF INTEGRATED VALUE OF PROJECTS IN THE FIELD OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Development of alternative energy sources requires the implementation of complex problems, the solution of which is necessary to apply the project approach. The uniqueness of alternative energy projects (AEP) necessitates individual approach to evaluating the effectiveness of each. The paper contains the results of the project management features's analysis in the field of alternative energy, determining the values and developing of the value management integrated conceptual model of AEP. In assessing the effectiveness of AEP considered the socio-economic and commercial aspects. Value management integrated conceptual model of AEP was obtained by combining the classical model of the project management goals with the project values model Five E and two A. The classical model of the project management goals have been complemented with risk parameters.

Types and characteristics of project management in the service

Types and characteristics of project management in the service

Exact algorithm for matrix-based project planning problems

This paper proposes a new matrix-based project planning method that takes into consideration task importance or probability of completions thus determines and ranks the importance or probability of possible project scenarios and project structures. The proposed algorithm is fast, aims to select the most important project scenarios or the least cost/time demanding project structures. The algorithm is generic, can host several types of goals dictated by the characteristics of project management and as such can be the fundamental element of a project expert- and decision-making system.