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Book Project Management for Engineering  Business and Technology

Download or read book Project Management for Engineering Business and Technology written by John M. Nicholas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-02 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project Management for Engineering, Business and Technology is a highly regarded textbook that addresses project management across all industries. First covering the essential background, from origins and philosophy to methodology, the bulk of the book is dedicated to concepts and techniques for practical application. Coverage includes project initiation and proposals, scope and task definition, scheduling, budgeting, risk analysis, control, project selection and portfolio management, program management, project organization, and all-important "people" aspects—project leadership, team building, conflict resolution, and stress management. The systems development cycle is used as a framework to discuss project management in a variety of situations, making this the go-to book for managing virtually any kind of project, program, or task force. The authors focus on the ultimate purpose of project management—to unify and integrate the interests, resources and work efforts of many stakeholders, as well as the planning, scheduling, and budgeting needed to accomplish overall project goals. This sixth edition features: updates throughout to cover the latest developments in project management methodologies; a new chapter on project procurement management and contracts; an expansion of case study coverage throughout, including those on the topic of sustainability and climate change, as well as cases and examples from across the globe, including India, Africa, Asia, and Australia; and extensive instructor support materials, including an instructor’s manual, PowerPoint slides, answers to chapter review questions and a test bank of questions. Taking a technical yet accessible approach, this book is an ideal resource and reference for all advanced undergraduate and graduate students in project management courses, as well as for practicing project managers across all industry sectors.

Book Perspectives and Techniques for Improving Information Technology Project Management

Download or read book Perspectives and Techniques for Improving Information Technology Project Management written by Wang, John and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives and Techniques for Improving Information Technology Project Management discusses the variety of information systems and how it can improve project management and, likewise, how project management can affect the growth of information systems. Using new frameworks, technologies and methods, this comprehensive collection is useful for professionals, researchers and software developers interested in learning more on this emerging field.

Book Critical Success Factors in Information Technology Project Management

Download or read book Critical Success Factors in Information Technology Project Management written by Keren Dolan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Project Managers    Leadership Styles in Information Technology Sector of Pakistan

Download or read book Project Managers Leadership Styles in Information Technology Sector of Pakistan written by Muhammad Khalique Ahmad and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these competitive and turbulent times, project organisations face severe challenges. Despite the advancement of project management tools and techniques, the rate of project failure exceeds that of success. Regardless of calls for further empirical studies on the role of project leadership, researchers struggle to find the best leadership styles for project success. New digital transformation phenomena have forced organisations to offer more autonomy and decision-making authority to those at lower hierarchical levels. In this scenario, top management support plays a facilitator role. To the best of the researcher's knowledge, no past studies have examined these critical project success factors simultaneously in a project environment. Embedded in the theories of contingency, goal-setting, and social cognition, this study raised the hypothesis that project managers’ leadership styles impact project success via the mediation of goal clarity, empowerment, and self-leadership as well as the moderation of top management support. Data was collected by administering a cross-sectional survey to 289 project organisations in the IT sector. The results demonstrated that project managers' transactional leadership style does not impact project success because goal clarity has an insignificant association with project success. However, the transformational leadership style showed a positive impact on project success because empowerment significantly and positively relates to project success. The project manager's empowering leadership style was also found to positively influence project success through followers’ self-leadership. Additionally, top management support revealed a significant moderating role by strengthening the relationship between empowerment and project success. This study successfully fills theoretical gaps by introducing a novel moderated mediation model. The findings also offer useful insights to practitioners by revealing that project managers’ transformational leadership and empowering leadership are needed to enhance and encourage employee empowerment and self-leadership, and ultimately secure project success.

Book The symbiosis between information system project complexity and information system project success

Download or read book The symbiosis between information system project complexity and information system project success written by Carl Marnewick and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project success is widely covered, and the discourse on project complexity is proliferating. The purpose of this book is to merge and investigate the two concepts within the context of information system (IS) projects and understand the symbiosis between success and complexity in these projects. In this original and innovative research, exploratory modelling is employed to identify the aspects that constitute the success and complexity of projects based on the perceptions of IS project participants. This scholarly book aims at deepening the academic discourse on the relationship between the success and complexity of projects and to guide IS project managers towards improved project performance through the complexity lens. The research methodology stems from the realisation that the complexity of IS projects and its relationship to project success are under-documented. A post positivistic approach is applied in order to accommodate the subjective interpretation of IS-project participants through a quantitative design. The researchers developed an online survey strategy regarding literature concerning the success and complexity of projects. The views of 617 participants are documented. In the book, descriptive statistics and exploratory factor analysis pave the way for identifying the key success and complexity constructs of IS projects. These constructs are used in structural-equation modelling to build various validated and predictive models. Knowledge concerning the success and complexity of projects is mostly generic with little exposure to the field of IS project management. The contribution to current knowledge includes how the success of IS projects should be considered as well as what the complexity constructs of IS projects are. The success of IS projects encompasses strategic success, deliverable success, process success and the ‘unknowns’ of project success. The complexity of IS projects embodies organisational complexity, environmental complexity, technical complexity, dynamics and uncertainty. These constructs of success and complexity are mapped according to their underlying latent relationships to each other. The intended audience of this book is fellow researchers and project and IS specialists, including information technology managers, executives, project managers, project team members, the project management office (PMO), general managers and executives that initiate and conduct project-related work. The work presented in this first edition of the book is original and has not been plagiarised or presented before. It is not a revised version of a thesis or research previously published. Comments resulted from the blind peer review process were carefully considered and incorporated accordingly.

Book Critical Success Factors in Information Technology Project Management  microform

Download or read book Critical Success Factors in Information Technology Project Management microform written by Keren Dolan and published by Montréal : Service des archives, Université de Montréal, Section Microfilm. This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Perspectives on Projects

Download or read book Perspectives on Projects written by Rodney J. Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on Projects describes the full range of skills a project manager must develop. By grouping these skills into nine schools and developing a metaphor for each approach, students and managers alike are better able to apply the theory in developing a strategy for managing their project.

Book Information Technology for Management  New Ideas and Real Solutions

Download or read book Information Technology for Management New Ideas and Real Solutions written by Ewa Ziemba and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 14th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management, AITM 2016, and the 11th Conference on Information Systems Management, ISM 2016, held as part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, FedCSIS, which took place in Gdansk, Poland, in September 2016. The 13 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: information technology and systems for knowledge management; information technology and systems for business transformation; and implementation and evaluation of information systems.

Book International Conference on Information Systems and Intelligent Applications

Download or read book International Conference on Information Systems and Intelligent Applications written by Mostafa Al-Emran and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-22 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light on the fundamental and innovative topics in information systems and their societal impact on individuals and organizations. It mainly focuses on the role of artificial intelligence in organizations, human-computer interaction, IS in education and industry, and IS security, privacy, and trust. The outcomes are expected to assist the decision-makers in formulating the required policies and procedures for using cutting-edge technologies.

Book The Relationship Between Systems Development Methodologies and Information Technology Project Success

Download or read book The Relationship Between Systems Development Methodologies and Information Technology Project Success written by Maphisa Shirley Nkone and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Relationship Between Systems Development Methodologies and Information Technology Project Success

Download or read book The Relationship Between Systems Development Methodologies and Information Technology Project Success written by Maphisa Shirley Nkone and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systems development methodologies -- IT project success -- Critical success factors -- Systems development -- Information systems -- Stelselontwikkelingsmetodologieë -- IT-projeksukses -- Kritieke sukses-faktore -- Stelselontwikkeling -- Inligtingstelsels.

Book Critical Success Factors for Project Manufacturing Environments

Download or read book Critical Success Factors for Project Manufacturing Environments written by Antônio Carlos Pacagnella (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this article is to identify and understand the relationship between the critical success factors (CSFs) of project manufacturing environments and project performance. This article explores those relationships through the logistic regression method, using a sample of 182 respondents and quantifying the influence of CSFs on success achievement in four dimensions (efficiency, impact on consumers, impact on the team, and preparation for the future). The results show that not all CSFs are significant in explaining project success. Thus, project managers must evaluate the influence of each one and consider it in their decisions.

Book Critical Success Factors Affecting Project Performance

Download or read book Critical Success Factors Affecting Project Performance written by Thawatchai Jitpaiboon and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines success factors for a team project. The influence of three success factors -- (1) project management tools, (2) project management best practices, and (3) managerial support on the performance of individuals, teams, and projects was measured. We surveyed 121 business students with team project experience. Exploratory factor analysis confirms that success factors (project management tools, project management best practices, and managerial support) in a project tend to respond more to individual team members' performance compared to team performance and project performance. Our findings indicate that project management tools, project management best practices, and support are equally important to success during project implementation. We also find that harmonious relationships among team members lead to extrinsic motivation within project teams and enhance team and project performance. However, most of the time, the system -- not the individual -- causes a project to fail. Therefore, this study suggests that project managers make a clear plan and agenda by utilizing project management tools.

Book Project Management  Concepts  Methodologies  Tools  and Applications

Download or read book Project Management Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 2453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations of all types are consistently working on new initiatives, product lines, or implementation of new workflows as a way to remain competitive in the modern business environment. No matter the type of project at hand, employing the best methods for effective execution and timely completion of the task at hand is essential to project success. Project Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications presents the latest research and practical solutions for managing every stage of the project lifecycle. Emphasizing emerging concepts, real-world examples, and authoritative research on managing project workflows and measuring project success in both private and public sectors, this multi-volume reference work is a critical addition to academic, government, and corporate libraries. It is designed for use by project coordinators and managers, business executives, researchers, and graduate-level students interested in putting research-based solutions into practice for effective project management.

Book Empirical Research in Software Engineering

Download or read book Empirical Research in Software Engineering written by Ruchika Malhotra and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empirical research has now become an essential component of software engineering yet software practitioners and researchers often lack an understanding of how the empirical procedures and practices are applied in the field. Empirical Research in Software Engineering: Concepts, Analysis, and Applications shows how to implement empirical research pro

Book Critical Success Factors in Information Technology Projects

Download or read book Critical Success Factors in Information Technology Projects written by Martin Pieterse and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: