This study addresses two questions: (1) which Information Technology (IT) project manager competencies influence team commitment? and (2) how much these competencies impact team commitment? The main objective is to propose and evaluate a measuring instrument to identify the IT project manager competencies that are necessary to build and sustain team commitment in IT projects. We adopted mixed m...

Over the past few years, agile development methods steadily gain popularity in the world of software development. Proponents of these lightweight methodologies contends that agile methods are better suited to the fast pace of information technology change than traditional plan-based development methods [1]. However, agile development processes may encounter difficulties in task coordination and...

In this journal De Fraja studied the choice problem faced by the owner of a valuable project. He could run the project himself or sell it to an outside investor and work as a manager. The main result was that both cases are possible. Numerical simulation was used for the derivation. Unfortunately the results are flawed. It is possible to prove that it is always optimal for the owner to work as ...

In this paper, we present an approach for the development of a statistical dialog manager, in which the system response is selected by means of a classification process which considers all the previous history of the dialog to select the next system response. In particular, we use decision trees for its implementation. The statistical model is automatically learned from training data which are ...

Planning and scheduling have traditionally been considered separately. Starting from an ordered set of actions or plan, the project manager arranges the actions in time so that temporal and resource constraints are satisfied. However the benefits resulting from the integration of both processes merit an extensive work in this direction. In this paper an integration model for planning and schedu...

Project Project Acronym GRADE Project ID Project Title Scoping a Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit and Extraction Start Date 1 June 2005 End Date 30 April 2007 Lead Institution EDINA Project Director David Medyckyj-Scott, EDINA Project Manager & contact details Anne Robertson, EDINA University of Edinburgh Causewayside House 160 Causewayside Edinburgh EH9 1PR Tel 0131 651 3874 email a....

The management of distributed software development projects presents many challenges. One of them happens right at the start of the project and consists of the allocation of tasks between remote teams. When allocating a task to a site, the project manager takes into account several factors such as technical knowledge of staff and proximity to the client. The project manager usually takes this d...

This paperdescribesa way to reduce the numberof conflicts that may arise when several users cooperate to solve a task using a common database. The manual interaction between the users are made easier by supporting the project managers in planning of activities. Based on some interaction and an initial project division, we can analyse the connections between the activities, given as the result o...

Knowledge is more than the retrieval of sets of information: it is the task of explaining them and contextualizing them and empowering the information to change the face or workings of a corporation. Placed in this sophisticated role, 20th century project managers now find themselves revolutionizing the concept of what information and information management means to themselves and their corpora...

We examine the optimal choice of hurdle rates in a capital budgeting setting in which a manager receives superior information regarding the profitability of an investment project. Unlike the prior capital budgeting literature that treats the distribution of investment returns as exogenous, we consider a scenario in which the manager can engage in upfront project development activities to improv...