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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"Project Manager"”.
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The emergence of the forensic and legal project manager
The worldwide emergence of the distinct legal project manager role is symbolic of the evolving shifts in the management structure of legal projects within all legal service provider entities and brings a new career path for legal environments. This context statement offers a self-reflection of my …
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Being a Project Manager in a Multinational Corporation: An Interpretive Perspective On Working Practices and Experiences
… practices and everyday lived experiences of project managers, informed by an ontological orientation, this study looked into what it means to be a project manager in a multinational corporation. It provides an interpretive perspective on these practices and experiences, which includes …
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Causes of delays in construction projects & how the project manager can act to avoid delays
… of delays in civil engineering construction projects in Dubai from the viewpoint of construction contractors.<br/><br/>Dubai presents a special set of circumstances in which the Project Manager has to operate e.g. rapid growth in construction, tight construction times, the unique …
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Client/project manager agreement : for the provision of consultant project management services within the building & construction industry
The building project management profession in Australia has yet to develop an industry standard Client/Project Manager Agreement. This thesis examines Client/Consultant agreements and addresses the need for and benefits of, developing such an agreement.
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A Phenomenological Study of Factors that Influence Project Manager Efficacy: The Role of Soft Skills and Hard Skills in IT-Centric Project Environments
… of confusion around the factors that influence project manager efficacy already identified in the literature is the lack of clear agreement on definitions of success as viewed by different stakeholders in the context of project success, project management success, and project manager success. …
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Project managers in Scrum Teams: Software development conditions influencing the relative presence of a project manager within Agile Scrum Teams in Oceania and Southeast Asia
… industry. There are many software development project management models that have risen over the past 50 years. These were initially controlled by a Project Manager, who is the central figure for software development using earlier delivery models. Currently, none of these software delivery …
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Factors causing delay of modification projects at Koeberg Power Station
Project delays are common in construction projects, and at Koeberg Nuclear Power Station, modification and outage projects are not exempted from these delays. Subsequently, these project delays have a detrimental effect on the Eskom organization in terms of its mandate to supply electricity to …
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Business value of information technology : an applied framework to assess the business value of IT and maximize the impact of IT strategy
… is the expectation that the business value of IT projects be converted to cash flows, albeit for the sake of easy comparability among projects. The crux of the issue facing organizations with regard to assessing IT projects derives from the fact that there is now wide variety in the nature of such …
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Finance organizational core culture: how do they succeed?
Before a project manager starts a new project in an organization, he needs to know the environment to render realistic project planning. Culture is one part of the environment factors that indicates how people work within the organization to succeed and secure project success. In this article a …
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Project management framework for the empowermentof disaster susceptible communities during the post disaster phase
… others to decide their fate. The role of the project manager is to oversee the project deliverables are completed within a defined budget, scope and cost; therefore, the Project Manager can ensure the empowerment of the community will take place. An empowered community from disasters will be …
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ANCIENT THAI BATTLEFIELD STRATEGIES AND ITS STRATEGIC RELEVANCE FOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT RELATING TO LEADERSHIP QUALITIES
… of leadership qualities and particularly to the project manager in the construction industry. The general in the battle shares a common goal and behaviour with the project manager of construction projects in order to succeed in their respective fields through the employment of strategic …
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An experimental investigation of the effects of software size increase on software project management behavior
… have focused efforts to improve software project productivity on the role of the software project manager. The complex dynamics of software project development, and the "visibility" of the project, affect decision making and performance to a large degree. Using the System Dynamics Model …
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The relationship between the leadership style and emotional intelligence of information system project managers
Managing an information systems (IS) project is a challenging undertaking because of the very nature of these projects. The IS project manager is challenged with increasing and changing requirements, the management of technical resources and business users, and the delivery of the project to meet …
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A Qualitative Study on Certified Female Project Managers and Perceived Value of the Project Management Professional Certification
… study was to explore the influence of the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification on the careers of PMP-certified female information technology project managers who are current members in a mid- Atlantic Project Management Institute chapter in the United States. The aim of this …
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Managing projects utilizing self-managed teams and managerial toolkits
Project Management is an essential function in most software companies today. With increasing complexity and inter connectivity between software projects, it is not surprising that managing such large scale development projects can be expensive and extremely time consuming for the sponsoring …
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Significant Trade Contractor Performance Characteristics as Evaluated by Big-D Construction
… The impression a trade contractor leaves on the project manager and superintendent provides an indication of their performance. To determine what tasks trade contractors perform that most greatly impact overall perception of the general contractor's project manager and superintendent, hundreds of …
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Integrating project management and change management to reduce information and technology (it) project failure. A soft systems methodology (ssm) enquiry into a failing it project at UNHCR, South Africa.
… failure of Information and Technology (IT) projects has generated a lot of interest in literature in recent times despite huge capital investments into the industry. However, the failure is not only attributed to technical deficiencies but there is a growing realization, in literature, that …
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Project Manager's Behavioral Competencies Required to Successfully Deliver Projects Using a Weak Matrix Structure
… their strategic objectives due to a multitude of project failures. Seeing as it is commonly acknowledged that there is a strong link between Project Manager's competency level and project success, it is thus imperative to understand the competencies that a Project Manager must possess in order to …
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Control-Theoretic Decision Support for Mitigation of Modeled Software Project Cost Overruns
… In this work, the management problem of software project schedule adherence is re-cast as a problem in control theory.</p> <p>Below, a modeling framework is proposed for capturing the constraints and dependencies found in the arbitrary organization specific work-flows underlying software …
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Coaching for soft-skill development: an action research study with project managers
… coach and prompted by personal experience as a project manager and coach, this participatory action research study takes the situation of professional project managers, who need soft skills, to explore the usefulness of coaching practice as a development approach. There is confusion around soft …
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