What skills do project managers (PMs) need, and how do these skills impact project success in IT outsourcing? In this study, we seek to identify what factors impact IT project outcomes, such as costs and client satisfaction, given the project characteristics and PM’s hard and soft skills. We examine data collected from a field study conducted at a major IT service provider in India. Our results...

Background: One of the most important issues in empowering and developing managers is paying attention to spiritual intelligence and its effect on organizational commitment and productivity of projects in the organization. So the purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of spiritual quotient (SQ) training on organizational commitment and productivity in project managers. Meth...

Participant turnover in open source software development is a critical problem. Using Schneider’s (1987) Attraction Selection and Attrition Framework and the notion of PersonOrganization fit, we hypothesize about the relationship between a participant's fit with an open source project and turnover. Specifically we predict that value fit, needs-supplies fit and demandsabilities fit between a par...

during the implementation, construction projects usually encounter situation that considerably affects the project scheduling and cost. this study aims at using an improved version of the harmony search algorithm (hsa) to schedule resource constrained construction projects. this model is formulated as a global optimization problem. it will determine the duration of each activity to minimize the...

Project managers perceive and report project status. Recognizing that their status perceptions might be wrong and that they may not faithfully report what they believe, leads to a natural question – how different is true software project status from reported status? Here, we construct a two-stage model which accounts for project manager errors in perception and bias that might be applied before...

Identifying and developing project managers’ competencies arebecoming more and more important in today’s competitive market. This importance also has absorbed the attention of main project management institutions such as Project Management Institute (PMI) and Australian institute of Project management (AIPM). These professional project management institutes have developed project managers’ comp...

Information systems (IS) departments are organizing more of their work into projects. Thus, the project management profession is growing and project managers are becoming more and more important to their success. The Project Management Institute (PMI) offers certification of project managers. The Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, first offered in 1984, has gained a positive r...

one of the important problems in project management is lack of available resources in proper time at project site that leads to lack of project implementation in due date. this problem may be lead to time delay in sending resources from suppliers and related origins in supply chain to project site. therfore, to better resources managmenet and also the improvement of supply chain condition, the ...