We study the interaction between a group of agents who exert costly effort over time to complete a project, and a manager who chooses the objectives that must be met in order for her to sign off on it. The manager has limited commitment power so that she can commit to the requirements only when the project is sufficiently close to completion. This is common in projects that involve design or qu...

Project Information Project Acronym I2S2 Project Title Infrastructure for Integration in Structural Sciences Start Date 1 st Oct 2009 End Date 31 st March 2011 Lead Institution Universities of Bath and Southampton Project Director Liz Lyon (UKOLN) Project Manager & contact details Manjula Patel 01225 386547; [email protected] Partner Institutions Universities of Bath, Southampton, Cambridge; ...

role in project success is not addressed in project management literature. The purpose of this article is to address this gray area. In this article our focus is to identify a set of people-related project performance factors, and to understand how these factors interact with one another. Using these inter-relationships, we develop a model to analyze the project manager’s role in improving proj...

Global competition and unprecedented economic turmoil have created demanding innovation challenges for companies, industries and nations. Change is occurring at an astounding rate. What role, if any, does professional project management have to play in leading innovation efforts while dealing with change? Many believe that project management is a hindrance to innovation, but the mistaken belief...

As a project manager or task manager, you will be responsible for implementing government policy decisions and for making many operational decisions on the ground. The handbook provides information on the options that should be considered in various aspects of reconstruction and insight into what has worked elsewhere. It does not tell you exactly what to do, but it should improve the likelihood...

Steffen Schmidt is Managing Director at the IPG Automotive GmbH in Karlsruhe (Germany). Josef Henning is Product Manager Simulation Solutions at the IPG Automotive GmbH in Karlsruhe (Germany). Thomas Wambera is Project Manager Virtualisation Solutions at the Etas GmbH in Stuttgart (Germany). Silke Kronimus is Project Manager Virtualisation Solutions at the Etas GmbH in Stuttgart (Germany). Earl...

By their very nature, software projects require someone to coordinate and direct the efforts of the development team – the software project manager. Although this role has traditionally been viewed as a technical one, there is growing evidence from many sectors that technical skills are only part of what a software project manager needs to be effective. This paper delineates these knowledge are...

In this study the reasons for replacing a project manager (RPM) during an ongoing IT project are classified. We give an interpretation on a project through the lens of Activity Theory (AT) and examine the tensions leading to RPM through the principle of contradiction in AT. We interviewed four experienced supervisors of three large project-based companies in the IT field, reviewed a previous st...