This paper describes a procedure that can help managers measure their return on investment for project management (PM/ROI). Current PM processes and practices of 38 different companies and government agencies in 4 different industries or application areas were quantitatively examined. A PM benchmarking procedure was developed and used to assess the PM process maturity of these different organiz...

Software development processes such as the Waterfall process and Extreme Programming are Project Management Methods (PMMs) which are well known and widely used. However, conventional Project Management (PM) lacks the process concepts expressed in PMMs, and the connection between PMMs and PM is not much explored in the literature. Our research problem is to make this connection. We present data ...

e Abstract The Project Management (PM) paradigm is rapidly shifting due to business globalization and information technology (IT) advances that support distributed and virtual project teams. Traditional PM focuses on a single project at a single location [16] and is more concerned with project inputs and outputs than with project process [51]. Management in the past implied projects were conduc...

introduction: organizational memory (om) is a tool for implementation of knowledge management. the objective of this study was designing an om for medical records (mr) departments. methods: this descriptive study was carried out in 2007. the study population consisted of all employees in five teaching hospitals in tabriz. process and required knowledge identification was performed through quest...