Critical Success Factors (CSFs) are used to support and evaluate the success of a strategic and tactical approach in project implementation in order to increase the probability of success. This system is used by executors in project delivery to achieve improved performance capabilities with limited resources. The present paper aims to identify the impact of CSFs amongst the main elements involv...

Research for this paper suggests that there is still an alarming lack of success of IS projects in industry today. Two critical success factors that have been examined to date are project manager performance and IS planning maturity. However, the previous studies have bypassed the relative impact of the two factors in combination. This study proposes and empirically tests a model that examines ...

This paper discusses patterns about the lead roles of a software development team: The Product Manager who is the interface to the customer, the Project Manager who allocates the resources and the Architect who designs the software and leads the developers. A fourth pattern discusses how these roles act as hubs and how they relate to each other. The view is based on the project management trian...

In a competitive world, is very important that to have tools that offer an adequate support to the project manager with information about the development process. However at the moment, there is no a complete environment offering the adequate resources to develop distributed software, integrating both technical aspects related to software development and the management aspects. So it is very in...

In this paper we provide a model which describes how voluntary disclosure impacts on the timing of a firm’s investment decisions. A manager chooses a time to invest in a project and a time to disclose the investment return in order to maximise his monetary payoff. We assume that this payoff is linked to the level of the firm’s stock price. Prior to investing, the profitability of the project an...

Aim – This study sets out to identify and investigate how rewards, reward systems and organisational incentives influence construction site managers in a project based organisation. Method – The research was designed as a case study within one district in Skanska Sweden AB. The main data source in was approximately 10 semi-structured interviews conducted with managers at Skanska. Questions aime...

The resource-constrained project scheduling problem is to find a schedule that minimizes the project duration subject to precedence relations and resource constraints. To further account for economic aspects of the project, one may add an objective of cash nature to the problem. In addition, dynamic nature and variations in real world are known to introduce uncertainties into data. Therefore, t...

A project manager is expected to have a broad knowledge of his project when making decisions such as work activity formulation, resource allocation, staffing and risk confrontation. Because of the variegated nature of project decisionmaking, the knowledge required must span numerous issues. Thus a primary concern when training novice project managers is for them to learn how to focus knowledge ...

most developed countries have already accepted ‘competency’ as the major factor in making management more competitive, therefore they have discovered the importance of qualification models and their application to cause human resources growth. consequently, their aim is to improve the qualification of their human resources, and to reach this end, considering different ways of assessing competen...