are gratefully acknowledged, as well as the financial support of the European Union Human Capital and Mobility Program, Contract Nr. ERB4050PL930320. For the development of international scientific collaboration see among others Luukkonen et al. (1992).

as spending on it rises steeply, organizations become increasingly technology-dependent and, consequently, they become highly vulnerable to the risks of it failure. the latest report on the failure of many complex it projects to deliver key benefits on time and to target cost and specification was published jointly by the royal academy of engineering and the british computer society. one of the...

V. W. Y. Tam · L. Y. Shen · Risk Management for Contractors in Marine Projects ... · pp 403-410 Introduction Marine projects are one of major work in the Hong Kong construction industry. More than forty marine projects are in progress by the Hong Kong government (see Table 1) (Hong Kong Government, 2007), which include bulkheads, seawalls, foundation piles, docks, inspections, piers dredging an...

Risk management in software engineering has become a recognized project management practice but it seems that not all companies are systematically applying it. At the same time, agile methods have become popular, partly because proponents claim that agile methods implicitly reduce risks due to for example, more frequent and earlier feedback, shorter periods of development time and easier predic...

BACKGROUND In rural health and other health service development contexts, there is frustration with a reliance on pilot projects as a means of informing policy and service innovation. There is also an emerging recognition that existing research methods do not draw lessons from the failed sustainability that characterises many of these pilots and demonstration projects. DISCUSSION This article...

We describe the implementation of a pilot project to demonstrate the safety and feasibility of providing PrePex circumcision from a mobile clinic. We analyzed available project diary entries and staff meeting minutes to identify challenges encountered. The main challenges identified were (1) daily time constraints because of setting up procedures, (2) transportation logistics for clients when t...

An ecological pilot project for the control of Triatoma dimidiata allowed a new evaluation four and five years after environmental modifications in the peridomestic areas of 20 households. It was verified that the two groups of houses, 10 case-houses and 10 control-houses, were free of insects after those periods of time. In the first group, the owners started a chicken coop in the backyard and...

Organizations need to evaluate project proposals and select the ones that are the most effective in reaching the strategic goals by considering sustainability issue. In order to enhance the effectiveness and the efficiency of project oriented organizations, in this paper a new multi-objective decision making (MODM) approach of sustainable project portfolio selection is proposed which applies in...

The paper presents a systematic approach to software risk identification based on risk patterns. The approach assumes explicit modelling of the relevant business process that provides for controlling the scope and ensures the completeness of the analyses. We demonstrate how this approach can be applied using RUP as the reference model of software processes. Then we report on the validation expe...