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PROJECT TEAM - BASIC ELEMENT FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT IMPLEMENTATION
2013
Often it was found that, when people face uncertainty, no matter the field, they turn to others for advice on how to respond, on the same time, demonstrating a tendency to imitate the behavior others, especially of their superiors. This is why, a certain behavior of the project manager indicate how other people have to work on the project. By his behavior, the project manager can influence others to act and determine others to respond to a variety of issues related to the project. To be effective, project managers must also work with the project team and discuss all the existing or potential problems.
LEADERSHIP – A NECESSITY IN PROJECTS
2014
Leadership is one of the most discussed subjects nowadays, because more now than ever, the world needs good leaders to define a path and to determine others to follow. The understanding of leadership will better enable managers to be effective leaders and to more effectively lead their organizations, given the opportunities and challenges they have to face with. Leaders are agents of change in organizations and a tool they can use to determine change of attitudes, behaviors and actions are projects.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT – A TOOL FOR IMPLEMENTING CHANGE IN ORGANIZATIONS
2013
A project is known as a sequence of connected activities, conducted in an organized manner, undertaken in a defined period of time and designed to generate a well-defined result. Considering the influences imposed by the external environment, often characterized by frequent changes that may have positive or negative effects, organizations have to react fast in order to take advantage of opportunities and to protect them from threats. Because of this, project management can be seen as tool of management used in operationalization and implementation of change in organizations. We consider important for this research to determine the use of project management by the managers of Romanian organi…
Knowledge Management in the Project Life Cycle - Initial Research on Polish Smes
2014
Abstract Contemporary organizations run their activities in an environment, which might be defined as fully uncertain and turbulent. Due to variations that occur in the surrounding environment, an increased attention of management practitioners and theoreticians is paid to new management concepts frequently in an integrated version. The authors express a deep belief that consolidation of approaches to project management and knowledge management constitutes a response to challenge for modern organizations. Research into the issue was based on an attempt to determine significance of the knowledge management issue in a life of projects performed by Polish small and medium-sized enterprises (SM…
Planning Production Preparation Processesusing The Critical Chain Method
2017
This paper explains the usefulness of critical chain project management for planning production preparation processes. A synthesis of issues of project management and production preparation processes is presented, and a conceptual model of concurrent design processes using the critical chain method is developed. The proposed model of planning production preparation processes enables improving the effectiveness and economic efficiency of new product development. The main assessment indicators of efficient project management in production preparation are: shortening the preparation time of new product development, rational use of resources, and reducing the risk of failure. The proposed appro…
BUILDING THE PROJECT TEAM AND PROJECT ORGANIZATION – CHALLENGES AND OBSTACLES
2011
The building of a project team can be one of the first hurdles the future team manager faces. The blame for this can be constraints in terms of resources to fund salaries, lack of adequate or properly trained personnel, unavailability of specialists the manager needs within the project in the period this is scheduled, but also other causes. The building of a project team process must also correlated with its future structure, the two components influencing each other in both directions. Choosing an appropriate structure for the project to be implemented is not only necessary, but, moreover, may prove fatal to the extent that is not obtained.
Replacing Project Managers in Information Technology Projects
2015
According to anecdotal evidence, project managers working on information technology (IT) projects are occasionally replaced, although the literature on information systems (IS) and project management (PM) makes little mention of it. With a view to narrowing this knowledge gap the authors examined the reasons behind the practice. The authors took an interpretive approach to the data gathering and analysis, and collected descriptions about replacing project managers (RPM) from interviews and questionnaires (n=43). The concept of contradiction served as a lens through which to identify the underlying reasons. Contradiction refers to statements asserting or expressing the opposite of another st…