This paper presents a comparison of acquisition models related to decision analysis of IT supplier selection. The main standards are: Capability Maturity Model Integration for Acquisition (CMMI-ACQ), ISO / IEC 12207 Information Technology / Software Life Cycle Processes, IEEE 1062 Recommended Practice for Software Acquisition, the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and the Project Management Body...

The project management domain includes many well-defined methodologies such as the Project Management Body of Knowledge: PMBoK (Project Management Institute, 2008). On the other hand, project failures rate is quite high (Woolridge, Hale, Hale, & Sharpe, 2009). An interesting question is: Does using these methods improve project performances? This paper reports on a study that was performed to i...

Iran is very rich in oil and gas, which why the government investing billions of dollars every year gas facilities to improve country. The refinery construction industry are complex involves multidisciplinary contributors. In this environment, many changes claims appear. Changes commonly considered negative events, thus, should be kept away from project. With considering concept, paper presents...

Playing the role of project manager requires a certain level knowledge and experience from previous projects, thus enabling better decision making. The use serious games increasingly allows newer managers to gain necessary in controlled environment. Since several have been developed, need then arose conduct study measure coverage these simulators provide PMBOK. Fifteen were included this it is ...

The concern with the sustainability of agricultural production has encouraged search for alternative management soil fertility, reducing use mineral fertilizers and increasing organic materials. filter cake as a fertilizer expanded in sugarcane fields. However, despite some studies confirming its technical viability, it is not verified widespread used. aim this work was to plan execute research...

There are various IT frameworks and best practices supporting Information Systems. Each has its own strenghts but none of them satisfies all of the IS requirements independently. In this paper we are studying the possibilities of pooling of the most used frameworks: ITIL, Cobit, PMbok, CMMI, ISO 27001, Val IT and eTOM. The result of this paper is meant to present a Unified Maturity Model combin...

Software process engineering has not been introduced in most small software organizations because of the high cost of implementing it. RAMALA is a knowledge base, supported by a software tool which is also called RAMALA. This knowledge base contains a software process framework based mainly on PMBOK [9], using the best practices of the main software process reference models such as CMMI [11] an...

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to determine an appropriate sequence to develop the components of a project management plan. Some newcomers to project management become overwhelmed due to the complex relations within these components. Network theory is a widely used tool in fields with complex relations within entities, but it has not yet been applied to configure a project managemen...