Abstract Project management in construction industry, in many cases, is imperfect with respect to the integration of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) risks. This imperfection exhibits itself as complications affecting the riskiness of industrial procedures and is illustrated usually by poor awareness of OHS within project teams. Difficulties on OHS regularly came about in the construction i...

ment construction project network, Hyundai Engineering and Construction and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology developed a caseand constraint-based project-planning expert system for an apartment domain. The system, FASTRAK-APT, is inspired by the use of previous cases by a human expert project planner for planning a new project and the modification of these cases by the project...

Improvements in software processes can improve software quality, cost, and on-time delivery. Supplementing strategic software release planning with fine grain operational planning provides project managers the tools and abilities to make timely decisions affecting the project. Strategic planning of software releases is accomplished by the assignment of requirements to releases on a strategic le...

While abundant research deals with risks of ERP implementation, only a handful deal with ERP upgrades. This case study describes the first ERP upgrade project at the Dead Sea Works (DSW) chemical company. Whereas DSW succeeded in completing the initial ERP implementation project within budget and six months ahead of schedule, the first ERP upgrade project was fraught with difficulties in projec...

Uncertainty in acquisition projects and environments can degrade performance. Traditional project planning, management tools, and methods can effectively deal with uncertainties in relatively stable environments. But in more uncertain environments conditions can evolve beyond the assumptions used in preproject planning and require major deviations from initial plans. Important uncertainties oft...

2 Definition • A risk is a potential problem, which is characterized by the likelihood that an event, hazard, threat, or situation will occur and its undesirable consequence (IEEE 2001]. 2 3 Risk • This term means the probability that a software project will experience undesirable events, such as schedule delays, cost overruns, or outright cancellation. • Risk is proportional to size and invers...