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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"project environment"”.
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A study of the innovation process within the construction project environment
… perspective, and therefore neglecting a project focus. Academics expressed concern that this failure was aligned to a wider failure to understand the realities of managing innovation within the project environment as a mode of production. This thesis aims to understand the conceptual …
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Organizational learning and knowledge management: application within the Kwazulu- Natal department of public works
… invest millions in planning for investments and projects and apportion very little to nothing for evaluating and learning from them. This study reviewed the current knowledge management practices, particularly project closeout information at the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Public Works. This …
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The agile manager-investigating informal roles in agile software development
… the existence of managerial roles such as the project manager in many ASD projects. This clearly points to a disconnect between the theoretical perspective on agile and the situation encountered in practice. At this point in time there is a dearth of empirical studies on the manager's role in …
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Applying the design structure matrix to streamline the development process: lessons from marine renewable development
Tailoring a project development process that balances internal and external requirements is difficult for project managers. One specific difficulty is satisfying stakeholders with significant influence and misaligned process requirements. In this thesis, a federally funded marine renewable energy …
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Information system's project management and the phenomenon of trust.
… how the continual low success rate of IS projects could be improved through an evaluation of success and failure factors. A literature review revealed a comprehensive but uncoordinated history of research into the identification of the critical factors. This proved to be inconclusive, but …
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Modelling the relationship between project payment systems, financial management strategies and construction organisation performance in South Africa
The failure of construction projects to be delivered successfully – the root of poor performance in the construction industry – is attributed by scholars to the improper payment (or no payment at all) of contractors, and subsequently, of sub-contractors and suppliers. Therefore, proficient payment …
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Identification of Project Risk Factors in a South African Train Manufacturing Project
… in a decline in the industry. Undertaking a project to manufacture new trains for the country, a South African train manufacturing company is faced with many challenges that pose as risks to the project's success. These include challenges in economics, infrastructure, skills, value …
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The significance and co-dependency of 'robustness' in PFI projects : a granting authority perspective
… as aprocurement method. Therefore the volatile environment, within which PFIoperates, drives this research in exploring the Robustness of PFI in the projectenvironment from the perspective of the Granting Authority.The aim of the research is to determine the significance and co-dependency …
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An integrated framework for multi-project planning and control.
The area of project management has been the focus of intensive research for the last three decades. There are a number of studies which have focused on multi-project management, but very few have tackled the need for a tracking system to control and monitor the project in an integrated environment. …
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The impact of database systems on organisations : A survey with special reference to the evolution of the database administration function
… study is an investigation of U.K. database projects, undertaken to obtain a view of the managerial issues and organisational consequences which arise in practice. The findings are based on the completion of a simple postal Questionnaire by 212 organisations with database projects and …
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Identifying design alternatives for the Windhoek municipality by applying the FAST diagram
… use for many decades, yet in Namibia most built environment professionals are vaguely familiar with the concept and are not aware of the benefits of this practice, and that it can add value for money without reducing quality. This research seeks to focus on the value management methodology and …
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Incorporating prefabrication processes into building information modelling
… unit and implemented within a live construction project environment. Latest design process within SME unit along with BIM solution then evaluated against commercial criteria which determine the validity of incorporating construction industry prefabricating processes into current BIM applications …
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Die Betrachtung der Earned Value Methodik im agilen Projektumfeld hinsichtlich des Projekterfolgs
… be beneficial in waterfall and located software projects for monitoring the project management triangle. Nowadays, more and more virtual and agile project teams are used to manage the software requirements process. However, it remains unclear whether using the Earned Value metrics’ general …
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Establishing Relationships Between Risk Management and Knowledge Transfer
… tested using data collected from the project environment. A data collection instrument was developed, vetted through peer review, and distributed using the Internet. Ninety complete responses were collected and provided the raw data to statistically test the validity of the measures …
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An experiment on the introduction of software project management techniques to industry
… "An experiment on the introductlon of software project management techniques to industry". The objecuve of the experiment is to test the hypothesis that the incidence of project management failure within organisations can be reduced by modifying both the approach to project management training …
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Factors to be considered in the adoption of the matrix management organisation structure within a state-owned enterprise
… investigated how the employees understand the project matrix management organization structure and its application, how they observe it to be and whether their misunderstanding of their roles in the structure will have an impact on meeting the project objectives and performance. This research …
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Integrisani koncept analize uspešnosti projekata u funkciji unapređenja upravljanja znanjem u projektnom okruženju
Pregledom literature i dosadašnjih istraživanja utvrñeno je da samo mali broj organizacija sistematski uspeva da identifikuje i prenese znanje iz projekata u sledeće projekte, ali i da su performanse projekta u jakoj sprezi sa elementima znanja. Pored toga, može se zaključiti i da se znanje kreira …
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Social network analysis of knowledge transfer in sustainable office building projects in the UK and Germany
… in an increased complexity of construction projects with a more divergent set of actors involved. A seamless transfer of knowledge between these actors is required. The gap between the performance of green buildings as designed and as built could be interpreted as an indication that this …
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Application of the fast model from value engineering to capture and communicate project lessons learnt
… and communicating lessons learnt onto future projects. The research looked at current ways of capturing tacit knowledge within a projectized organisation to get a clearer picture and propose alternatives on how the knowledge can be communicated and transferred to novice team members in future. …
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