Nowadays, populations are concentrated in large cities exceeding millions of peoples; the need for massive infrastructure constructions and services becomes the priority for governments and local municipality institutions. However, the realization of such projects still problematic and conventional techniques quickly become inadequate. Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) recommendation...

This submission presents a new unified approach to processes modeling of software project management. It describes how we can use the PMBOK standard (Project Management Body of Knowledge) with combination of a general process approach to model and control software project cycle. The main purpose of this article is to simplify the whole software project realization by way of philosophy and metho...

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...

A four-round Delphi was conducted to determine the degree to which the PMBOK can address the identified critical success factors for software projects. Our findings show that the PMBOK provides a very effective framework for addressing only one critical success factor. Thirteen factors are addressed to a very good degree, five to a good degree, four to a fair degree and two are addressed to a l...

In this paper we present a case study on assessing project management maturity in organizations. The purpose is to develop an understanding of what project maturity is and to investigate process definition and practice maturity level in nine knowledge areas based on PMBOK standard and suggesting initiatives to improve maturity level. Maturity itself is measured along two dimensions. They are Pr...

This article presents a comparative study between the ECSS standards, more specifically in terms of the requirements of the ECSS software management process and the defenseintensive processes of PMBOK DoD. Since there is a sense that a complete comparison study is a lengthy process, the scope of comparison is restricted to space software acquisition. Most of the software systems are developed u...

In any organization, dealing with lessons learned is a complex issue that involves people, processes and technologies. Although lessons learned processes are already well established in the project management community, the use of modern web technologies to support them is still in its infancy. This paper introduces a new model to manage lessons learned in PMBoK process groups. This model draws...

Conflict of interest: none. aBstRact objective: Introduce a program for the management of scientific research in a General Hospital employing the business management tools Lean Six Sigma and PMBOK for project management in this area. methods: The Lean Six Sigma methodology was used to improve the management of the institution’s scientific research through a specific tool (DMAIC) for identificat...

The Project Management Institute's Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) underpins many initiatives to improve project management practice. It is widely used for training and underpins the development of competency standards. Because of its fundamental importance, the PMBOK should be critically reviewed. This paper agues for an expansion of the PMBOK Guide's risk management ...