This multimedia experience brings forth viewpoints, insights, and practices about who, why, what, and how to create excellence in project management. First, assemble pieces of a puzzle that optimize the environment for project work; second, traverse the path where a project office leads the change process to develop a project-based organization; and third, develop excellence in project sponsors...

a project is any endeavor involving planned action, for example, developing a new product or constructing a dam. [ce1] major factors for a project to be successful are applying performance measurement and feedback tool. one such well-known performance measurement tool to control the project execution is earned value management (evm). evm uses the fundamental principle that trends in the past ca...

The advantages of project management have been well documented, but project failure rates still remain high. This suggests continued exploration of new process models and organization structures to nurture strong project performance. One important candidate for improvement in this ongoing journey is the project management office (PMO). This paper is based on a two-year empirical study that inve...

iran’s industry has had a considerable number of difficulties to perform so well as was expected in the post – revolutionary era. unfavorable legal, political environments combined with eight –year imposed war may be singled out as the root causes of such performances. however, this paper argues that our industry’s lack of realization of its dire need to adapt to the emerging unprecedented envi...

In the current climate, preparing for change is an issue for companies large and small. However, there remains a dearth of empirical evidence that highlight how software Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) operationalise their approach to knowledge management (KM) as a means of preparing themselves for the future. For an SME, the first step is to take stock of the types of knowledge that a...