A technology demonstrator is one thing but having people use a technology is another, and the result reported here is that people often ignore our lovingly crafted handiwork. The SERA project Social Engagement with Robots and Agents was set up to look explicitly at what happens when a robot companion is put in someone’s home. Even if things worked perfectly, there are times when a companion’s h...

Project managers perform better and lead projects to a successful end if their characteristics match with the requirements of the position. Manager of a research project should not only have a solid scientific background, but also possess attributes of a leader. Incompetent research and development (R&D) managers can cause grievances, complaints, employee turnover, and organizational disruption...

We study the problem of the manager of a project consisting of two sub-projects or tasks which are outsourced to different subcontractors. The project manager earns more revenue from the project if it is completed faster, but he cannot observe how hard subcontractors work, only the stochastic duration of their tasks. We derive the optimal linear incentive contracts to offer to the subcontractor...

Purpose:This article evaluates the impact of project risk management (PRM) and leadership development (LD) on success (PS). The aim study is to investigate linkage between PRM PS, relationship LD PS. To evaluate moderating effect Risk Manager PS; PS.
 Design/Methodology/Approach:The was intended understand with PS in overall setting different construction projects Karachi surroundings. res...

Received Jun 1, 2015 Revised Oct 16, 2015 Accepted Nov 5, 2015 Every software development project is unique and different from repeatable manufacturing process. Each software project share different challenges related to technology, people and timelines. If every project is unique, how project manager can estimate project in a consistent way by applying his past experience. One of the major cha...

As the connectivity of the business environment increases, as a result of rapid technological development, project teams are becoming more geographically dispersed. Given that team members may be positioned on different parts of the globe, multi-cultural issues may become more prominent, providing further complications for the project manager. Project planning and decision-making, therefore, be...

As the connectivity of the business environment increases, as a result of rapid technological development, project teams are becoming more geographically dispersed. Given that team members may be positioned on different parts of the globe, multi-cultural issues may become more prominent, providing further complications for the project manager. Project planning and decision-making, therefore, be...

Nowadays, the information systems of large companies are quickly growing in complexity. In fact, tough new software development technologies and technical infrastructures are ever more powerful and allow higher degrees of flexibility, on the other hand this translates in a more complex solution for the final software systems and their maintainability results in a very challenging task. This is ...

The CERN LHC experiments have begun the LHC Computing Grid project in 2001. One of the project's aims is to develop common software infrastructure based on a development vision shared by the participating experiments. The SEAL project will provide common foundation libraries, services and utilities identified by the project's architecture blueprint report. This requires a broad range of functio...

An exploratory study was conducted (a) to examine whether experieticed software managers could generate accurate estimates of effort required for proposed software projects and (b) to document the strategies they bring to bear in their estimations. Five experienced software project managers served as expert subjects for the study. Each manager was first asked to sort a set of 37 commonly-used e...