TRW’s Project Review Online System (PROS) was created in late 1996 to automate the collection and analysis of project data. It provides a web-based repository of up-to-date information to support project management, senior manager oversight, and process improvement. This article captures our experiences with establishing and using this concept.

Project managers are grappling with a variety of risks today as a result of increasing complexity and dynamics of projects in different stages of project life cycle. Thus, it seems quite necessary to employ an efficient risk management process that can overcome the shortcomings of traditional methods in order to handle such complexities and reach the optimal project management. This matter is e...

In the field of management, the delay within projects is a prominent and contentious issue. Due to the fact that delay leads to cost and time over-runs, it is often the subject of litigation claims and creation of managerial tensions. In a bid to bring such delays under control and also to diminish managerial tensions, it is necessary to recognize and understand the following four concepts:"typ...

Fractured neck of femur accounted for more than 1.7 million bed days in 2003 (Department of Health, 2003). This article discusses how the role of the ward manager on an older persons' trauma ward was modernised to provide a specialist service for outlying patients while maintaining ward management responsibility. This project is well established and has been successfully applied to coronary care.

Over the last two decades, there has been a fundamental shift in project management related to the development of new products and systems. The traditional approach of a sequential, compartmentalized development process has been replaced by a cross-functional, interdisciplinary approach. This is particularly true in defense-related organizations in which the focus is on the seamless transfer of...

Project managers are grappling with a variety of risks today as a result of increasing complexity and dynamics of projects in different stages of project life cycle. Thus, it seems quite necessary to employ an efficient risk management process that can overcome the shortcomings of traditional methods in order to handle such complexities and reach the optimal project management. This matter is e...

THIS PAPER OFFERS ten common sense principles that will help project managers define goals, establish checkpoints, schedules, and resource requirements, motivate and empower team members, facilitate communication, and manage conflict.