Evaluation of Sustainable Practices within Project Management Methods

Experience Management within Project Management Processes

The business process revolution has had two impacts on project management: the recognition of a process perspective (such as the 39 appearing in the PMBOK), and the acknowledgement that these processes reflect project management knowledge (such as the nine knowledge areas in the same publication). These two levels have been extended, through an architecture (HCRN – hierarchical case retrieval n...

Balancing Food Values: Making Sustainable Choices within Cooking Practices

Within user-centred design and topics such as persuasive design, pleasurable products, and design for sustainable behaviour, there is a danger of over-determining, pacifying or reducing people’s diversity. Taking the case of sustainable food, we have looked into the social aspects of cooking at home, in specific related to the type of food that is purchased. This paper describes what it means f...

Educational Delivery Methods to Encourage Adoption of Sustainable Agricultural Practices

The growing public concern about groundwater contamination, pesticide residues, soil erosion, and wildlife habitat runs parallel to “an emerging interest by many farmers for a more costeffective and environmentally benign agriculture” (USDA, 1990). But only a small number of farmers are using alternative farming systems (Board of Agriculture, 1989). The cause of the limited adoption of sustaina...

Investment Methods in Sustainable Water Resource Management Using SAW Method

Using Agile Practices to Influence Motivation within IT Project Teams

This exploratory study of IT project teams in Sweden and Ireland investigates how three agile practices, namely daily stand-ups, iteration planning and iteration retrospectives, contribute to motivation or demotivation in an agile team. Several studies recognise that motivating staff is critically important for a project manager and have identified factors that motivate IT project staff in part...