Due to the particular importance of projects in human life and in organizations, proper project management has been always regarded highly by researchers and practitioners. Recent advances in technology and fundamental changes in most scientific areas have affected projects and made their nature and environmental circumstances much more complex than in the past. Fortunately, in recent years, ma...

Software project management is one of the critical activities in software development process. Many software development projects fail due to poor management of projects. The main aim of software project management team is to count what is countable, measure what is measurable and prepare measurable parameters for continuously monitor and manage a software development project. One of the very i...

today, knowledge is considered as a competitive advantage. so, different countries try to prepare necessary infrastructure for knowledge development in different levels. one of the solutions in this field especially for know-how development is establishing physical places with purpose of doing knowledge based projects. these physical places were established in different countries with various n...

(UNU). It is based in Macao, and was founded in 1991. It started operations in July 1992. UNU-IIST is jointly funded by the government of Macao and the governments of the People's Republic of China and Portugal through a contribution to the UNU Endowment Fund. As well as providing two-thirds of the endowment fund, the Macao authorities also supply UNU-IIST with its office premises and furniture...

This paper presents case study findings on the technology planning process for individual new product developmem (NPD) projects. These find­ ings were generated as part of a larger research project cUn'ently underway investigating effective managemem of risky product and process tech­ nologies in new product development projects. This topic is important since finns I in certain competitive envi...

In recent years, the banking industry has made significant changes in technology and communications. The expansion of electronic communications and a large number of people around the world access to the Internet, appropriate to establish trade and economic exchanges provided but high costs, lack of flexibility and agility in existing systems because of the large volume of information, confiden...