Project Management Procedures Research Articles

Influences of critical success factors on nonprofit outcomes of ODA education construction projects: a case of Vietnam

Purpose Official development assistance (ODA) education projects have played a crucial role in improving education and training fields in developing countries, but are often facing several considerable challenges (e.g. long implementation time). Thus, this study aims to identify critical success factors (CSFs) in ODA education projects and investigate the influences of CSFs on ODA project performance measured by 11 nonprofit outcomes (NPOs). Design/methodology/approach A comprehensive literature review and expert interviews were conducted to compile a list of 35 potential success factors for ODA education projects. Using a survey questionnaire, 143 valid responses were collected from practitioners joining ODA projects in Vietnam. Various statistical methods (e.g. mean score method, Spearman rank correlation test, analysis of variance test, factor analysis and regression analysis) were used to analyze the collected data. Findings This research identified seven CSFs for ODA education projects in Vietnam: comprehensive project management competency (C1), clarity and compliance in project execution (C2), transparency and committed funding (C3), external context conditions (C4), well-controlled design and project management procedures (C5), preparations in equipment and complexity insight (C6) and punctual site delivery (C7). Furthermore, the results of regression analysis indicated that comprehensive project management competency (C1) and transparency and committed funding (C3) could significantly affect various NPOs. Originality/value This study offers significant insights for practitioners (e.g. project managers) to improve ODA projects’ performance and effectiveness in the education and training sector of a developing country context (like Vietnam).

Impact of Machine Learning on IT Project Management

This paper comprehensively examines the effects of Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically machine learning on IT project management in the context of technologically advanced surroundings. The study emphasizes the importance and advantages of incorporating machine learning techniques to simplify project management procedures and effectively implement IT projects. In providing a thorough review of machine learning applications in project management, the paper emphasizes how these technologies can completely transform decision-making, resource allocation, risk assessment, and overall project performance. This paper provides insightful information on the transformative potential of machine learning in enhancing technology project management methods through a thorough literature review and detailed analysis.

Strategic Management of Research and Innovation Projects: A Systematic Literature Survey

The informality of Strategic Research Project Management procedures is still a reality in several health science and technology institutions in Brazil, with a recognized negative impact on innovation management. The objective of this work is to verify the scientific and academic production related to the methodologies of strategic management of research projects and innovation in health in the databases of journals in the last 10 years, in the period from 2011 to 2021. The methodology used was the systematic review of literature based on the criteria of Tranfield, Denyer, and Smart (2003) to ensure the scope and impartiality of the research. The question that guided the selection of articles in this study was: “What are the main methodological references for the strategic management of research projects and innovation in health proposed in the scientific literature?” The databases defined for searches were Pubmed, SciELO, and Lilacs. 90 records were screened and reviewed by crossing keywords, descriptors, and eligibility criteria listed in research and innovation. The data collected for screening referred to specific information on the source/article/document (title, authors, journal, year, language) and main characteristics of the study (population profile, research context, objective, methodology used), as well as identification of emerging themes and additional notes. We conclude that, despite the interest in publications on the subject in question, the application of strategic management in research and innovation projects in Health is still emerging not only in Brazil but also in other countries recognized for the development of this area of study. The systematic review made it possible to identify the main practices described in scientific articles, which may help in assessing the implications and benefits generated using these strategies.

Systematic risk management for aplanned gas shutdown in the high-care facility of auniversity hospital

In the course of building extension works at Dresden University Hospital, it was necessary to shut down the central medical gas supply in abuilding with 3 intensive care wards with 22beds, an operating theater tract with 5 operating rooms and 6 normal wards each with 28beds during ongoing services. Thus, for the construction phase there was aneed to establish an interim decentralized gas supply with zero failure tolerance for the affected functional units . Following established procedures for possible risk and failure analysis, aproject group was set up by the hospital's emergency and disaster management officer to develop aproject plan, aneeds assessment and acommunication plan. Avariety of risk factors were systematically identified for which appropriate countermeasures needed to be designed. The needs assessment over 4 h based on physiological parameters for the maximum available 22ventilator beds resulted in 26,000 l of oxygen and 26,000 l of compressed air. A total of 7 supply points were each equipped with two 50l cylinders for both oxygen and compressed air, with atotal availability of 175,000 l of each of the 2 gases. Another eight cylinders each were held in reserve. The project was carried out on aSaturday without an elective surgery program, so that the operating rooms concerned could be closed. The timing was chosen so that double staffing of intensive care personnel was available during the afternoon shift change. In advance, as many of the patients on mechanical ventilation as possible were transferred within the hospital; however, nine of the mechanically ventilated patients had to remain. The technical intervention in the gas supply lasted only 2 h without affecting the patient's condition. During the 2‑h interim supply, 16,500 l of compressed air and 8000 l of oxygen were consumed on the high-care wards. The calculated hourly consumption per ventilated patient was 917 l of air (15 l/min) and 444 l of oxygen (7 l/min). The quantity framework based on empirical values from intensive care medicine was significantly lower. This was more than compensated for by the 10-fold stocking of gas and the predictably lower number of ventilated patients than the maximum occupancy used as abasis. For technical interventions in high-risk areas, careful planning and execution in an effective team is required. Established procedures of project management and risk assessment help to avoid errors.

Project Management Procedure for the Construction of Cooled Stores for Drugs and Medicine on Iraq

Iraq is one of the countries that fluctuates in the climate greatly, as well as is characterized by a very hot summer, so the cold storage sector is very important in this country, especially medicine and medical supplies stores. The warehouse sector is one of the most important construction sectors. It includes many facilities, the most important of which are cold stores. After researching and investigating the necessary data in managing this type of project, it was found that there is a great shortage in that data, and this deficiency may be one of the reasons for the failure of this sector in Iraq. In order to evaluate the information and available data related to the management of cold store projects, a questionnaire was asked to take the opinion of engineers and specialists in this field. The questionnaire included several axes, and each axis included a group of questions. The questions were divided depending on their relationship to each other. The questions included gender, age, specialization, experience and the fact that the engineer previously worked in project management and other questions. This article proposes waterfall framework as project management framework for the studied case projects.

Project Management Procedure for the Construction of Cooled Stores for Drugs and Medicine on Iraq

Project Management Procedure for the Construction of Cooled Stores for Drugs and Medicine on Iraq

Terceiro setor

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar as metodologias de gerenciamento de projetos utilizadas por Organizações do Terceiro Setor. A pesquisa foi realizada em uma cidade do interior do Estado de São Paulo em 25 Organizações do terceiro setor de diferentes áreas de atuação. As organizações responderam a um questionário estruturado, com 90 questões fechadas, que permitiram identificar os aspectos constantes nos objetivos deste trabalho. Os resultados indicam que o trabalho voluntário é predominante nas Organizações do Terceiro Setor (46% das organizações participantes). Os participantes da pesquisa têm curso superior (48%) e pós-graduação (24%), e 52% das organizações organizam e realizam seu trabalho totalmente como projetos. 40% das organizações dispõem de procedimentos padronizados para gerenciar projetos. 68% adotam critérios formais para a seleção dos projetos e em 71% delas existe o acompanhamento dos custos do projeto durante a execução. Conclui-se as Organizações do Terceiro Setor utilizam razoavelmente bem os procedimentos em gerenciamento de projetos, principalmente em relação ao gerenciamento da comunicação, recursos humanos, prazos e custos. Palavras-chave: Gerenciamento de projetos. Projetos. Organizações não-governamentais. Terceiro Setor.

Evaluating the Programs and Procedures of Project Planning and Management: the Case of Ethiopia Red Cross Society

The central purpose of the study is to evaluate the programs, project planning and management in Ethiopian Red Cross society and its comparison with procedures of project planning and management system. The study found that Ethiopian Red Cross society has been working on a lot of community development projects in Ethiopia for several decades. Most projects were principally emphasized on disaster and risk reduction. Different organizations use diverse project procedures to achieve the anticipated objectives. This also true for the Ethiopian Red Cross society projects. The Ethiopian Red Cross society had integrated some unique style of project planning and management system in its project. Thus, there was no total departure in the whole system of project development phases. Every cycle of the project life spans are used beginning from the point of concept initiation to final implementation and closure phases.

Business Process Reengineering: A Scope of Automation in Software Project Management using Artificial Intelligence

This research paper aims an analytical study on the software development organization insight into trending automation technologies and their implementation Software Engineering Management (SEM) processes. Software Project Management (SPM) is a scientific art for planning, controlling execution and monitoring. SPM approaches are more focusing towards the essential requirement for the success of software project development. It has been very challenging to manage software development using existing project management procedures driven by software development organizations and this is one of the areas of problem statement for this research. This paper discusses an analytical study for the requirements and consideration of BPR in SPM, explores to spot and emphasizes the important success factors for the execution of a BPR using benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in software development organization. BPR is organizational mechanism that improves ability to respond to challenges of qualitative result by change and improvement in software engineering processes, productivity, product quality and competitive advantages. AI will be the best approach and scope of automation SEM processes for software development organizations. This paper also represents a conceptual view of software engineering model shift for improvements in capability of project managers to handle agile thinking and problem solving for betterment of SPM using Artificial Intelligence.

Critical Success Factors in IT Project Management. Case study on IT Banking Front-end IT System Project in Serbia

The success of project management in organizations depends on the context, that is, on type of organization, type of projects they implement, the environment and the conditions for the realization of projects. What matters to the textual issues of project success is due to a number of factors - type of project, importance for organization, resources, and the like. Insufficient number of organizations successfully managed to implement project manager procedures, while others met with a large number of problems, the resistance of employees first of all, ignorance, lack of resources, bad time management and other issues. Organizations must have an incremental approach to the development and implementation of their project management methodologies, especially when it comes to implementing information technology project, that involve a great deal of human-work, innovation and usually cost a lot, development takes a long time, they are based on the knowledge of new technologies, and their success depends on the people who develop them, and those who will use those IT products and services. This is a great challenge for management in terms of use of information technology, budget and planning, involvement of the project team and establishment of support from the environment. Many IT projects are not implemented successfully because of poor application of project management procedures, lack of stakeholder support, absence of project sponsor etc.

National Pharmacists On-the-Job Training program at the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia

International Journal of Pharmacology and Clinical Sciences,2019,8,2,94-98.DOI:10.5530/ijpcs.2019.8.16Published:June 2019Type:Review Article Authors:Yousef Ahmed Alomi, Saeed Jamaan Alghamdi, and Radi Abdullah Alatty2 Author(s) affiliations:Yousef Ahmed Alomi1,* , Saeed Jamaan Alghamdi2, Radi Abdullah Alatty2 1The Former General Manager of General Administration of Pharmaceutical Care, The Former Head, National Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice, The Former Head, Pharmacy R and D Administration, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA. 2General Administration of Pharmaceutical Care, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA. Abstract:Objective: To explore the pharmacists on the job training at the Ministry of Health hospitals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Methods: It is a descriptive analysis of pharmacists on the job training at the Ministry of Health hospitals. It was within the pharmacy strategic plan 2012-2020. The study used the changed pharmacy business model system and Project Management Procedure. Results: The pharmacists on job training system reputable with a defined vision, mission and goals. The system had some properties including human or economic and other defined in the review. The continuation of the system guaranteed by risk management model explanation. Also, the monitoring and controlling of the system as exemplified. The convention to operation project though closing project stage established in the examination. Conclusion: The pharmacists on job training system well-known within the healthcare system and pharmacy regulations. The pharmacists on the job training system are regularly refining consequently at all Ministry of Health hospitals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Keywords:Job, Ministry of Health, Pharmacists, Saudi Arabia, TrainingView:PDF (306.53 KB) PDFClick here to download the PDF file. Images Pharmacist on job training program modules and duration of training

Project tools in relation to the implementation of the ability of innovation companies in Slovakia

The ability of project implementation is considered an important part of corporate reality. The current situation shows that project management is used not only in technology-oriented companies but has also found its place in other areas, mainly because of the effective implementation of the necessary corporate innovations. This article intends to analyze the use of project tools in various types of companies, including public institutions in the Slovak Republic. For the verification of the use of these tools, a random selection of 154 companies implementing projects in the Slovak Republic was used. In the research, we performed a cluster analysis and multivariate regression analysis. The results show the differential use of individual instruments not only in terms of the size of companies but also in terms of realized types of projects. The most important project management procedures are related to team communication, but also to clients and external experts. The results also show that the effective use of tools, especially in the project implementation phase and completion, significantly improves the success of projects.

Regarding Quality Management System in Aerospace Industry Organizations

This paper illustrate the quality management system in an organization with field of activities in manufacturing of aerospace components. The aerospace standard of quality management system is EN AS 9100, based on ISO 9001. Additional to the EN AS 9100 quality management system standard requirements, the organizations in aerospace field, need to integrate in their quality system a lot of additional process and regulations specific in aerospace industry. The big aircraft producers have designed their requirements in such a way that all approved suppliers, which are respecting these requirements, can manufacture high quality products. These requirements are manufacturing process specifications, inspection specifications, aircraft design standard and norms and even project management procedures and best practice. The method used to integrate all these requirements is detailed and explain in this paper.

National Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting System at the Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia

Pharmacology, Toxicology and Biomedical Reports,2018,4,3,21-23.DOI:10.5530/PTB.2018.4.8Published:September 2018Type:Review ArticleAuthors:Yousef Ahmed Alomi, Saeed Jamaan Alghamdi, and Radi Abdullah Alattyh Author(s) affiliations:Yousef Ahmed Alomi1, Saeed Jamaan Alghamdi2, Radi Abdullah Alattyh3 1The Former General Manager of General Administration of Pharmaceutical Care, The Former Head, National Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice, The Former Head, Pharmacy R and D Administration, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA. 2General Administration of Pharmaceutical Care, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA. 3General Administration of Pharmaceutical Care, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA. Abstract:Objective: To illustrate the adverse drug reaction during the pharmacy strategic plan at the Ministry of Health of Health institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Method: It is description analysis of adverse drug reaction system at the Ministry of Health of Health institutions. It was analysis within the Pharmacy strategic plan 2012-2020. The modified pharmacy business model system and Project Management Procedure used in the report. Results: The adverse drug reaction established with a defined vision, mission and goals. The system human or economic and other resources described in the review. The risk management was discussed to assure the continuation of the system. Besides, the monitoring and controlling of the system as illustrated. The closing stage with convention to operation project demonstrated in the Analysis. Conclusion: The Adverse drug reaction system implemented and it is considered as part of the healthcare system and pharmacy regulations. The documentation of ADR is updating improving accordingly at all Ministry of Health institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Keywords:Adverse drug reaction, Ministry of Health, Pharmaceutical Care, Saudi Arabia, SystemView:PDF (946.08 KB) PDF PDF Images National Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting System at the Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia

National Corporate Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee at the Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia

Pharmacology, Toxicology and Biomedical Reports,2018,4,3,24-27.DOI:10.5530/PTB.2018.4.9Published:September 2018Type:Review ArticleAuthors:Yousef Ahmed Alomi, Saeed Jamaan Alghamdi, and Radi Abdullah Alattyh Author(s) affiliations:Yousef Ahmed Alomi1, Saeed Jamaan Alghamdi2, Radi Abdullah Alattyh3 1The Former General Manager of General Administration of Pharmaceutical Care, The Former Head, National Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice, The Former Head, Pharmacy R and D Administration, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA. 2General Administration of Pharmaceutical Care, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA. 3General Administration of Pharmaceutical Care, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA. Abstract:Objective: To review the Ministry of Health Corporate MOH Pharmacy and Therapeutic committee system at the Ministry of Health foundations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Method: It is a retrospective analysis of Ministry of Health Corporate MOH Pharmacy and Therapeutic committee system at Ministry of hospitals institutions. Its analysis illustrated within the Pharmacy strategic plan 2012-2020. The analysis process used. The modified pharmacy business model system and Project Management Procedure. Results: Ministry of Heath drug Corporate MOH Pharmacy and Therapeutic committee established with clear vision, mission and goals. The committee had human or economic and other resources described in the review. To assure the continuity of the system; the risk management was used and described. Besides, the monitoring and controlling of the system were demonstrated. The closing stage with convention to operation project shown in the Analysis. Conclusion: The Ministry of Health Corporate MOH Pharmacy and Therapeutic committee system founded though Pharmacy strategies and regulations. The Ministry of Health Corporate MOH Pharmacy and Therapeutic committee has regular development accordingly at all Ministry of Health hospitals and primary healthcare centers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Keywords:Ministry of Health, Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee, Saudi ArabiaView:PDF (242.23 KB) PDF PDF Images National Corporate Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee at the Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia

On-the-Job Training of Pharmacy Technicians at the Ministry of Health Hospitals in Saudi Arabia

Pharmacology, Toxicology and Biomedical Reports,2018,4,3,34-36.DOI:10.5530/PTB.2018.4.12Published:September 2018Type:Review ArticleAuthors:Yousef Ahmed Alomi, Saeed Jamaan Alghamdi, and Radi Abdullah Alattyh Author(s) affiliations:Yousef Ahmed Alomi1, Saeed Jamaan Alghamdi2, Radi Abdullah Alattyh3, 1The Former General Manager of General Administration of Pharmaceutical Care, The Former Head, National Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice, The Former Head, Pharmacy R and D Administration, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA. 2General Administration of Pharmaceutical Care, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA. 3General Administration of Pharmaceutical Care, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA. Abstract:Objective: To demonstrate the pharmacy technicians on the job training at the Ministry of Health of Health hospitals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Method: It is a retrospective analysis of pharmacy technicians on job training project at the Ministry of Health of Health hospitals. It was within The Pharmacy strategic plan 2012-2020. The study used the modified pharmacy business model system and Project Management Procedure. Results: The pharmacy technicians on job training system established with a defined vision, mission and goals. The system had several resources including human or economic and other described in the review. The continuation of the system assured by risk management model description. Also, the monitoring and controlling of the system as illustrated. The convention to operation project though closing project stage demonstrated in the Analysis. Conclusion: The pharmacy technicians on job training system established within the healthcare system and pharmacy regulations. The pharmacy technicians on the job training system are regularly improving accordingly at all Ministry of Health hospitals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Keywords:Job, Ministry of Health, Pharmacy Technicians, Saudi Arabia, TrainingView:PDF (513.08 KB) PDF PDF Images On-the-Job Training of Pharmacy Technicians at the Ministry of Health Hospitals in Saudi Arabia

Use Effective Methods of Project Management Methodology by IPMA the Realization of Investment Projects

International Project Management Association is an organization focused on Project management process which is understood as competence field of a Project Manager. The Project Manager is the main person of all the process with responsibility from the beginning to the end of the process. This article focuses on the tools, documents and project management procedures related to building projects and big investment areas. Based on practical experiences it describes the main role of the project managers in terms of competency skills. It refers to bottlenecks of the buildings projects, underestimating the risk management and it includes a short view on process solving with Theory of Constrains. On the end of the article is mentioned a team work as a tool for successful achievement of objectives.

A Fuzzy Approach for Maintenance Management of Urban Roadway Bridges

A successful bridge management system needs to utilise an efficient decision-making model for prioritising the bridges for repair and maintenance operations to deal with the limited allocated funds. Models based on certain mathematics and divalent logic that need accurate data are not flexible with the uncertainty space of project management procedure and lead to imprecise outputs. Unlike classical logic, fuzzy logic represents the propositions with degrees of truthfulness and falsehood. In this paper, a fuzzy decision-making model was developed to prioritise a large number of urban roadway bridges and put them on the agenda for repair and maintenance operations. The proposed model considers experts' feelings, knowledge, and judgment expressed by linguistic variables, vague data or uncertain values in the modelling. The introduced model uses a fuzzy multi-attribute decision-making matrix to evaluate a large number of bridges to a large number of effective factors in the bridge maintenance area and determines the fuzzy desirability priority of each bridge as well as the preference value of every bridge to another one. This capability makes the model adaptable for a particular region or condition and helps managers make quick and more accurate strategic decisions.

Modelos de calidad de la traducción en empresas de la República Popular de China: estudio cualitativo

En la República Popular de China (RPC) los investigadores han reflexionado sobre la calidad de la traducción desde la segunda mitad del pasado siglo. Hoy el mercado de la traducción en la RPC está en crecimiento. El aumento de las traducciones ha traído consigo un interés por la calidad y por establecer pautas que permitan asegurarla. Este interés se ha materializado no sólo en publicaciones teóricas sino también en la publicación de las normas GB / T 19363.1-2003 y GB / T 19682-2005 y en una preocupación de las empresas por establecer directrices de calidad para sus empleados. Este artículo aborda los modelos de calidad de la traducción profesional en la RPC. Su objetivo es presentar un análisis de los criterios y las normas de calidad que se aplican de forma efectiva en las empresas de servicios lingüísticos en la RPC y comprobar hasta qué punto coinciden con las normas oficiales y con las aportaciones teóricas. Para ello hemos analizado las páginas web de cinco empresas de traducción con sede en la RPC. Nuestros resultados indican que dichas empresas poseen criterios de calidad de traducción que pueden relacionarse con factores regulados por las normas como son la competencia profesional de los traductores, el uso de herramientas tecnológicas, los procedimientos de gestión de los proyectos, la relación con el cliente y las directrices lingüísticas y textuales.

Managing projects with uncertain deadlines

In conventional project management, the project manager is given a deadline and is responsible for making decisions assuming this deadline will not change. But in reality, project deadlines frequently change. Conventional project management addresses unanticipated changes in the project deadline with external change control processes. If this external process changes the deadline, the manager will replace the original deadline with the modified deadline. The manager is still suppose to assume this modified deadline is fixed in making project decisions.As this paper will show, recognizing deadline uncertainty can substantially improve the value of the manager’s decisions. Deadline uncertainty could be formally addressed in project management by making dramatic changes in conventional project management. But given the widespread use of project management, making such dramatic changes might not be feasible. This paper presents a much more easily implemented approach to incorporating deadline uncertainty into managerial decision making which makes no changes to conventional project management procedures.