Project Management Ability Research Articles

Marky: A tool supporting annotation consistency in multi-user and iterative document annotation projects

Background and objectivesDocument annotation is a key task in the development of Text Mining methods and applications. High quality annotated corpora are invaluable, but their preparation requires a considerable amount of resources and time. Although the existing annotation tools offer good user interaction interfaces to domain experts, project management and quality control abilities are still limited. Therefore, the current work introduces Marky, a new Web-based document annotation tool equipped to manage multi-user and iterative projects, and to evaluate annotation quality throughout the project life cycle. MethodsAt the core, Marky is a Web application based on the open source CakePHP framework. User interface relies on HTML5 and CSS3 technologies. Rangy library assists in browser-independent implementation of common DOM range and selection tasks, and Ajax and JQuery technologies are used to enhance user–system interaction. ResultsMarky grants solid management of inter- and intra-annotator work. Most notably, its annotation tracking system supports systematic and on-demand agreement analysis and annotation amendment. Each annotator may work over documents as usual, but all the annotations made are saved by the tracking system and may be further compared. So, the project administrator is able to evaluate annotation consistency among annotators and across rounds of annotation, while annotators are able to reject or amend subsets of annotations made in previous rounds. As a side effect, the tracking system minimises resource and time consumption. ConclusionsMarky is a novel environment for managing multi-user and iterative document annotation projects. Compared to other tools, Marky offers a similar visually intuitive annotation experience while providing unique means to minimise annotation effort and enforce annotation quality, and therefore corpus consistency. Marky is freely available for non-commercial use at http://sing.ei.uvigo.es/marky.

The Application of Project Management Maturity Model

With the application and development of modern Project Management technology, Project Management Maturity Model (PM3) made great progress and become a tool. This paper reviews the development history of project management maturity model, researches comparingly on several PM3, points out that scientific research can evaluate the project management ability by using PM3s theory and find out shortages, then seek method and approach to improve continually on project management. At last, The concrete application process and effect of PM3 are analyzed using examples. Keywords-Project Management Maturity Model; Manufacturing maturity; project management ability

Three Different Conceptions of Know-How and their Relevance to Professional and Vocational Education

This article discusses three related aspects of know-how: skill, transversal abilities and project management abilities, which are often not distinguished within either the educational or the philosophical literature. Skill or the ability to perform tasks is distinguished from possession of technique which is a necessary but not sufficient condition for possession of a skill. The exercise of skill, contrary to much opinion, usually involves character aspects of agency. Skills usually have a social dimension and are subject to normative appraisal. Transversal abilities rely on but are not reducible to the exercise of skill, but require a further degree of attention and seriousness in their exercise. Transversal abilities can be displayed in different ways using different skills, depending on context. They include: planning, communicating, evaluating—all important features of successful professional action. Project management or the putting into effect of relatively long-term sequences of action involves the articulation of different transversal abilities. It is a form of agency which is considered to be important in some European vocational and professional education systems and usually involves a strong social dimension. The article concludes with a discussion of the educational implications of these distinctions and of their interrelationships.

Conversations with Catalogers in the 21 st Century ed. by Elaine R. Sanchez (review)

Reviewed by: Conversations with Catalogers in the 21stCentury ed. by Elaine R. Sanchez Molly Larkin Conversations with Catalogers in the 21stCentury, ed. Elaine R. Sanchez. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO / Libraries Unlimited, 2011. 283p. (ISBN 978-1-59884-702-4) Today’s catalogers exist in a world of flux and uncertainty. As more and more people rely on non-library searching mechanisms for their information needs, the role of the traditional library catalog is unknown. Catalogers’ expertise has been in their ability to organize, classify, and provide subject analysis to the resources acquired by libraries, but these skills are not always as highly valued in a world of keyword searching. In addition, the last several years have seen many libraries shift their collection emphasis from traditional print materials to online resources and unique special collections that can make an individual library stand out. Furthermore, the catalogers themselves are faced with the challenge of learning a new cataloging code at the same time they are trying to acclimate to the myriad of other changes that are becoming a routine part of their everyday work life. Editor Elaine R. Sanchez, head of cataloging & metadata services at Texas State University—San Marco, pulls together essays from some of the major names in cataloging to illustrate the issues facing the cataloging world today. Conversations with Catalogers in the 21stCentury generally provides a readable account of the current state of cataloging without getting bogged down in the technical aspects and terminology of cataloging. The book opens with three chapters devoted to Resource Description and Access (RDA), which is the new set of cataloging rules set to replace the Anglo American Cataloging Rules Second Edition (AACR2) in March of 2013. Published in 2011 and no doubt written even earlier, the issues discussed in these chapters have become dated as RDA has continued to evolve and the decision was made by the Library of Congress to definitely adopt these new rules following a period of testing to determine the rules usability and usefulness. These chapters may serve to provide perspective on what the issues were, but anyone looking to learn about RDA and its effects on cataloging would be better served by following blogs or electronic lists dedicated to this topic. In addition, these chapters do not really provide a good overview as some of the discussion gets weighed down with very specific examples of the differences between RDA and AACR2. Anyone who regularly follows the discussions on RDA-L or even on AUTOCAT will find nothing new in these chapters. [End Page 213] In the second section of this book, library specialists address issues facing cataloging workflows, bibliographic control, and information retrieval systems. Jon Gorman provides a fascinating vision of a utopian cataloging environment that combines currently available or easily feasible technology with the strength and expertise of individual catalogers to provide useful and searchable information to those seeking resources. This section provides the most technical discussion in the text as the authors seek to illustrate essential components of a catalog, the best means for storing and sharing the data that make up the catalog, and how this all can remain relevant now and in the future. How catalogers react to these inevitable changes will determine the survival of the profession going forward. Lynnette M. Fields and Christine Schwartz provide somewhat similar accounts of their transitions from “cataloging” librarians to “metadata” librarians. Building upon their strengths in organizing and describing collections, catalogers may be uniquely positioned to make special and “hidden” collections more accessible to library patrons as libraries place an emphasis on these collections as a means to draw attention and associated funding to themselves and to the institutions that host them. However, at a time when these traditional cataloging skills coupled with programming and scripting knowledge along with project management abilities is becoming crucial, most American Library Association (ALA) accredited library programs are lowering requirements and course offerings for cataloging and information organization. In the final section of the book, Sylvia Hall-Ellis and Janet Swan Hill provide thoughts on how the education for catalogers can be improved, how to attract those with degrees from fields outside the humanities...

Education and Broad Concepts of Agency

Drawing on recent debates about the relationship between propositional and practical knowledge, this article is concerned with broad concepts of agency. Specifically, it is concerned with agency that involves the forming and putting into effect of intentions over relatively extended periods, particularly in work contexts (called, for want of a better term, ‘project management’). The main focus of interest is thus not on ‘know-how’ in the sense of ability to perform types of tasks but on the ability to form and carry through projects. Much, although by no means all, of the limited literature on this topic assumes that such abilities are largely independent of social interaction. This article will challenge that assumption. The article concludes with a reflection on the implications of an adequate account of project management ability for contemporary debates on the relationship between propositional and practical knowledge, and examines the implications for vocational and professional education that prepares people for this type of broadly based agency for their personal development.

Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation for IT Project Risk Management

In order to improve project management ability, prevent communication accident, and identify 21 concrete risk factors in IT engineering construction, this paper has set up an evaluation index system with five risk factors for one class index such as design, the personnel, technical force, management, project implementation, and security measures. Then, this paper has used the method of fuzzy comprehensive evaluation to assess the overall risk for CDMA core network expansion project in Xinjiang telecommunication, and put forward the relative solutions for risk.

Competency rallying in electronic markets: implications for open source project success

This paper studies the success of Open Source Software (OSS) projects in attracting developer interest and achieving project efficiency. The focus of our study is on examining the relationship between the four sets of capabilities proposed in the Theory of Competency Rallying (TCR) and the success of OSS projects. The data collected from 607 OSS projects mainly confirm that the capabilities proposed in the TCR are necessary for the success of OSS projects. The results of this study show that in order to succeed, OSS projects should constantly identify their market’s quality and functionality needs. Ability of OSS project managers to know which developers possess certain skills required to meet a particular market need is also found to be critical. Another capability that is recognised to be crucial in predicting project success is the ability of OSS developers in effectively addressing market needs and continuously learning from such experiences. Finally, the ability of stakeholders involving in addressing a particular market need to efficiently collaborate and fulfil that specific market need is found to be another essential capability required for OSS projects to succeed. Implications of the results for practitioners and the research community are presented.

Study on Project Management Maturity of Real Estate Enterprise

Based on the theory of enterprise project management maturity, this paper analyzes the influence factors of real estate enterprise project management maturity and put forward the evaluation index system considering the characteristics of real estate project management. AHP model for project management maturity of real estate enterprise is established, which gives the method and steps of project management maturity evaluation. The model provides a powerful tool of developing project management ability for real estate enterprise.

2612 PMBOKによるPM育成からCMMIによる組織としてのプロジェクトマネジメント能力の向上(一般セッション)

2612 PMBOKによるPM育成からCMMIによる組織としてのプロジェクトマネジメント能力の向上(一般セッション)

Evolutionary fuzzy decision model for cash flow prediction using time-dependent support vector machines

The ability of project managers to make reliable cash flow predictions enhances project cost flow control and management. Reliable cash flow prediction over the course of a construction project puts the project manager in a better position to identify potential problems and develop appropriate strategies to mitigate the negative effects of such on overall project success. Therefore, managers should monitor project progress using cash flow data, which has unique characteristics, as time series data. However, the complex, mutable nature of construction projects currently requires significant reliance on experience and expert opinions to predict cash flow on an ongoing basis. Recent studies have indicated good potential for using artificial intelligence to reduce reliance on human input in cash flow prediction processes. The Evolutionary Fuzzy Support Vector Machine Inference Model for Time Series Data (EFSIM T), an artificial intelligence hybrid system focusing on the management of time series data characteristics which fuses fuzzy logic (FL), weighted support vector machines (weighted SVMs) and a fast messy genetic algorithm (fmGA), represents a promising alternative approach to predicting cash flow. Simulations performed on historical cash flow data demonstrate the EFSIM T is an effective tool for predicting cash flow.

Systems Engineering Management Education in Embedded System

Engineers with system architecture design and project management abilities are required in the field of embedded system development. In university, however, educations are mainly focused on computer science and programming; systems engineering and project management education have been disregard. We implemented educational curriculum of systems engineering and project management in embedded system for graduate program. In this paper the course design, execution and evaluation are described.

Managing cross-cultural communication in multicultural construction project teams: The case of Kenya and UK

The increasing global nature of construction projects has highlighted the importance of multiculturalism and the new challenges it brings to project execution. However, there has, as yet, been no empirical work that quantifies explicitly the extent to which communication determines the success of multicultural projects. This paper explores the ability of project managers in Kenya and the UK in communicating effectively on multicultural projects. The study examines the cultural factors that influence communication and explores how communication can be made effective in multicultural project environments. Using data from 20 interviews in Kenya (10) and UK (10), the results show that communications within multicultural project environments can be effective when project managers demonstrate an awareness of cultural variation. Participants further highlighted that, one of the critical components of building multicultural project teams is the creation and development of effective cross cultural collectivism, trust, communication and empathy in leadership. The study underscores an urgent need for future research to investigate effective guidelines or strategies for effective collectivism and communication in multicultural project teams.

Cooperative Education of Systems Engineering and Embedded System

AbstractCollege of Systems Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology has been conducting systems engineering educations to all undergraduate students in the college for seventeen years. Engineers with system architecture design and project management abilities are required in the field of embedded system development. In universities, however, educations are mainly focused on computer science and programming; systems engineering and project management education have been disregarded. We implemented educational curriculum of Systems Engineering and Project Management in Embedded System for graduate program. In this paper the course design, execution and evaluation are described.

The Role of Framing in Complex Transitional Projects

The role of perceptual frames and reframing in the context of the shifting demand for goods and services is explored. The case of Alstom Transport's building of the Pendolino tilting train for Virgin Trains' West Coast Mainline route is used as an example of how framing and reframing can be a key management tool in contexts where customers are driving new strategic directions in the delivery of goods and services. We see the successful management of transitional projects (projects which depart from existing knowledge and capabilities to deliver transformed goods and services) as dependent on the ability of project managers, and other key actors, to reshape and realign existing perceptual frames. The paper examines the difficulties of so doing.

ハードウェア保守サービス体質を活かしたプロジェクト型事業の定着化 : プロジェクトマネジメント力強化の実践例( 我が社のPM事例)

ハードウェア保守サービス体質を活かしたプロジェクト型事業の定着化 : プロジェクトマネジメント力強化の実践例( 我が社のPM事例)

The impact of government practice on the ability of project managers to manage

This paper examines the effect government policy has on the way managers of government-funded projects manage. The findings suggest that government reforms have improved the efficiency of processes undertaken during the life of the project, but have failed to address the issues arising from a lack of policy clarity relating to “what should be developed”. In addition, the findings suggest that the gains achieved through the implementation of government reforms are compromised by a lack of a management framework detailing the responsibility and authority of each government entity involved in the ownership of projects. In addition, there is presently no recourse to mediation for resolving outstanding contract discrepancies.

Understanding the role of politics in successful project management

Successful project management is directly linked to the ability of project managers and other key players to understand the importance of organizational politics and how to make them work for project success. While most of us view politics with distaste, there is no denying that effective managers are often those who are willing and able to employ appropriate political tactics to further their project goals. This paper offers some thoughts on the role of politics in successful project management, identifying ways in which project managers can use politics in a positive and effective manner.

Project management education at a Swiss technical university

The extent to which students at a Swiss technical university are educated in project management knowledge and abilities, is described. A breakdown is given of the programmes offered in Switzerland compared to other European technical universities, with emphasis on teaching and training methods and analysing practical situations.