Technology project management, planning, and operational strategies are critical resources for organizations. Today, technology represents powerful tools for maximizing the value of information. With the rapid progress in technologies and the incredible growth of the demand for a new generation of technology, stakeholders have facilitated the introduction of technology project management progra...

Earned Value Analysis (EVA) is a project management technique (Stephan and Mario, 2006). It is one of the most effective performance measurement tools for controlling and managing the development projects. EVAt assists, the project manager to cognize the project status and predicts future performance. The objective of this paper is to predict the Over Target Baseline (OTB) and Estimate At Compl...

Risk management aims to discuss the probabilities and consequences of risks on the goals of a software project. In such projects, there are dependence relationships between risks, although they are not treated yet by standard risk management practices. This paper is concerned with the analysis of risk dependencies, where these risks are assessed when multiple project stakeholders are involved i...

Many modern new product development (NPD) embedded software projects are required to be run under turbulent conditions. Both the business and the technological environments are often volatile. Uncertainty is then an inherent part of the project management. In such cases, traditional detailed up-front planning with supporting risk management is often inadequate, and more adaptive project managem...

The Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP) is the first ever randomized controlled trial of foster care as an alternative to institutional care for young children. It involved a collaboration between American investigators and Romanian health and child protection professionals. We present a brief description of the Romanian context and the project itself before discussing a number of ethic...

Agile project planning plays an important part in agile software development. In distributed settings, project planning is severely impacted by the lack of face-to-face communication and the inability to share paper index cards amongst all meeting participants. To address these issues, several distributed agile planning tools were developed. The tools vary in features, functions and running pla...

Efficiency of projects is a central concern in project management. Such concerns have only been exacerbated with projects being increasingly distributed across firm and country boundaries. This study has a two-fold research agenda: First, it provides an understanding of how the efficiency of projects varies across project organization types, namely, Insourcing, Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Offs...

Software project planning is becoming more complicated and important as the size of software project grows. Many approaches have been proposed to help project managers by providing optimal staffing and scheduling in terms of minimizing the salary cost or duration. Unfortunately, the software quality, another critical factor in software project planning, is largely overlooked in previous work. I...

Innovation & Prosperity Fund (IPfund) in Iran as a governmental organization aims to develop new technology-based firms (NTBF) by its available resources through financing these firms. The innovative projects which refer to IPfund for financing are in a stage which can receive both fixed rate facilities and partnership in the projects, i.e. profit loss sharing (PLS). Since this fund must protec...