A Case Study on Project Realization Digitalization from the Domain Perspective

This paper provides a Case Study in Front End Project Realization digitalization from the Domain perspective, with a focus on the methodology used, process enhancements that were enabled through automation, and lessons learned during the transformation. The transformation has been an iterative process, first focusing on digitalizing modules within the Front End work process and evolving into a multi-discipline integrated digital application. Along the journey, application of Agile project strategies enabled continuous enhancements to be identified and implemented through lessons learned, formal design thinking reviews, new idea generation and informal engagements with other disciplines commencing their digital journey. The process enhancements include: New Ways of Working to seamlessly integrate Front End technical and cost analytics engines, and across broader enterprise digital Field Development processes.New Sources of Insight to expand ideation using cross industry learnings, maximize use of extensive internal project data, and embedded Best in Class benchmarking. The Front End digitalization process identified significant value to stakeholders through increased pace of delivery, improved early concept definition with limited human intervention, increased cost accuracy, and increased confidence in the results through replication, improved data supply and benchmarking rigor. Specific value unlocks are seen across Front End Loading (FEL) i.e., pre-FEL to FEL-2 stages and will be presented. Through incorporation of enhanced data and insights, improved cost compression and decision-making quality has also been identified and subsequently will improve the project economics. A number of challenges through the transformation process were identified. These included: integration or replacement of legacy technical and cost applications; identifying and digitalizing a wide range of internal engineering tools and data sources needed for a comprehensive digital Front End process; efficiency of translating technical requirements to the digital team through comprehensive mapping of design and experienced-based rules; and re-shaping Front End technical focus from deliverable generation to targeted assurance, value obsession and risk management. While major focus has been on the integration of internal technical and cost applications, significant challenges were also identified in integration of external applications and Application Programming Interface (API) readiness to allow interaction between the applications and the Front End digital application i.e., Concept Factory. And finally, challenges in achieving a high performance team with the right balance of Domain, translators and programmers will be discussed.

Development of the algorithm of the development project management and the techniques of the assessment of the project realization effect

The article emphasized the importance of the implementation of development projects, identified the features of the formation and significance of the team implementing development projects, defined the process of interaction of project team members, and developed an algorithm for managing a development project, and proposed a methodology for assessing the effect of its implementation.

Front End Work Process Digital Transformation: Challenges and Opportunities

Digital transformation is shifting the structure of work in nearly every industry and fundamentally changing the value proposition for customers. As part of PETRONAS’ overall digital transformation, Front End Engineering (FEE) has embarked on an ambitious program to digitalize and integrate the company's Front End project realization processes and applications into a single digital tool, referred to as Concept Factory. This paper reviews the journey to initiate, frame and deliver the Front End work process digitalization. The Concept Factory digital transformation program first focused on a strategy to identify the pain points within the traditional project realization work process and how this is impacting both quality and speed of delivery. Once the pain points were identified, assessment of how digitalization may eliminate the pain points and enhance the project realization process value was completed. This assessment also included an end-to-end review of where the current Front End work processes to identify barriers that challenged the ease of digitalization; these included highly manual and siloed work processes, data management and tools; insufficient leveraging off the extensive Company knowledge databases and analogue projects; and inefficient technical and cost benchmarking to assure robustness of Front End work. This resulted in a more significant Front End process transformation being needed to increase the potential value creation through the digital transformation. A stepwise, iterative approach using Agile project management techniques has been used to harness the full capabilities of digital integration and analytics to FEL-2 rather than merely digitalizing the existing manual workflow. This will be done by first automating and upgrading databases and discrete data hand-offs to be "digital ready", independently developing and digitalizing the full suite of Front End technical and cost analysis tools, then integrating these tools within a common Concept Factory analytics platform for both stand-alone Front End analysis and as a domain tool within the broader Field Development Planning digital framework. Several technical and organizational challenges were identified that need to be overcome from business case syndication to adoption. As the daily work routines of employees are being radically changed to adapt to the rapid change of digital technology, ongoing alignment was done to engage the Front End team and broader stakeholder groups in the process through demonstrations and feedback sessions. In addition, cascading technical needs through the digital team execution required ongoing alignment through daily Scrums, Sprint Planning and demonstration sessions. Fully integrated Front End process digitalization has rarely been attempted within E&P companies. However, this has the potential to disrupt the Front End work process from a manual, siloed generation of deliverables to an automated and integrated techno-commercial process focused on replication, speed and accuracy, a re-focus the Front End team on Value Creation, Assurance and Risk Management initiatives.

MARKETING TOOLS IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF YOUNG SCIENTISTS’ HUMAN CAPITAL

The purpose of the paper is to identify the marketing tools, which are promising areas of functional provision of strategic management of young scientists’ human capital in Ukraine. The novelty of the research is represented by the created theoretical model of the conceptual scenario of strategic management of young scientists’ human capital. The object of the scientific research is the process of using marketing tools in strategic management of young scientists’ human capital. The research methodology includes such methods: comparative analysis, critical analysis, statistical analysis, economic-mathematical analysis and graph-analytical. The research is based on the results of mass sociological survey of young scientists in Ukraine performed within the framework of the project «Realization of the young scientists’ potential in integration of science, education, and business» (0120U102126) in 2020 year. The obtained results confirmed fully the proposed hypothesis H1 and H2 and partially the hypothesis H3. The discussion section of the paper proposes the improved method of evaluating the human potential of young scientists, which includes four vectors: assessment of business qualities of educational managers, evaluation of the effectiveness of the organizational structure of management of scientific and educational institutions, assessment of the overall effectiveness of marketing activities of scientific and educational institutions, general evaluation of marketing potential of human development in the strategic management of human capital of research and educational institutions. The fourth component is proposed to produce marketing tools used by young scholars based on the results of a mass sociological survey. The practical value of the proposed instruments for the young scientists’ community and scientific and educational institutions, where they are employed, is in the use of the adapted graph-analytical method, which gives the opportunity to assess the marketing tools in strategic management of young scientists’ human capital.

IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERDEPARTMENTAL MENTORING PROJECT “KINDERGARTEN - SCHOOL - UNIVERSITY”

Mentoring programs implemented within the frameworks of interdepartmental cooperation is one of the promising outlooks for professionalization of students’ academic activity. Analysis and summarizing of such mentoring project realization experience are the objective of the article. The article studies the author’s model of mentoring the core of which is represented by methods of analysis and synthesis of accumulated knowledge in the sphere of linguodidactics, experiment and observation methods, communicative method of foreign language teaching.

Preferences of Construction Managers Regarding the Quality and Optimization Criteria of Project Schedules

In the literature on the scheduling of construction projects it is difficult to find a justification for adopting the criteria for evaluating work schedules based explicitly on the preferences of those who develop them. This article tries to fill this gap and provide information on the preferences of construction site managers for sustainable scheduling and organization of construction projects. The publication focuses on the views and needs of construction site engineering staff regarding methods of work organization, the need to reduce downtimes in the work of crews, the deadline for project realization and the selection of crews for tasks. This information was obtained on the basis of surveys conducted among managerial staff of various levels (74 people). The authors hope that the information provided in this publication will allow the creation of more reliable tools to support construction managers better adapted to their preferences and needs, and therefore more likely to be applied in practice.

DESIGNING A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP TO ENSURE THE ECONOMIC SECURITY OF BUSINESS ACTIVITIES

В ходе исследования разработана интеллект-карта государственно-частного партнерства по обеспечению экономической безопасности предпринимательской деятельности, элементы которой отражают не только логику самого процесса, но и последовательно раскрывают его особенности в положениях соответствующего предложенного проекта. Реализация цели статьи достигнута посредством последовательного решения цепочки задач: от разработки моделей государственно-частного партнерства в исследуемой проблематике до оценки эффективности разработанной интеллект-карты. In the course of the study, an intellect map of a public-private partnership for ensuring the economic security of entrepreneurial activity was developed, the elements of which reflect not only the logic of the process itself, but also consistently reveal its features in the provisions of the corresponding proposed project. Realization of the goal of the article was achieved through a sequential solution of the chain of tasks: from the development of models of public-private partnership in the studied problems to the assessment of the effectiveness of the developed intelligence card.

DESIGNING A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP TO ENSURE THE ECONOMIC SECURITY OF BUSINESS ACTIVITIES

В ходе исследования разработана интеллект-карта государственно-частного партнерства по обеспечению экономической безопасности предпринимательской деятельности, элементы которой отражают не только логику самого процесса, но и последовательно раскрывают его особенности в положениях соответствующего предложенного проекта. Реализация цели статьи достигнута посредством последовательного решения цепочки задач: от разработки моделей государственно-частного партнерства в исследуемой проблематике до оценки эффективности разработанной интеллект-карты. In the course of the study, an intellect map of a public-private partnership for ensuring the economic security of entrepreneurial activity was developed, the elements of which reflect not only the logic of the process itself, but also consistently reveal its features in the provisions of the corresponding proposed project. Realization of the goal of the article was achieved through a sequential solution of the chain of tasks: from the development of models of public-private partnership in the studied problems to the assessment of the effectiveness of the developed intelligence card.

INVESTIGATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF “UNIVERSAL IMAGE DICTIONARY” FOR CREATION OF MAN-MACHINE INTERFACE

The project urgency is evidenced by the measurement of subject-matter popularity on the Internet – a query to the Net on the topic of the subject gives 18900 results, and a novelty is defined by specification, for instance, the “Universal Image Dictionary” query gives “No results found for” and 1 result M24.RU – 10 unknown: monsters, stairs, funnels and keys… www.m24.ru/articles/112668/ … The project offered supposes the creation of the bank of different images already existing and having a wide distribution and which can be a means of international communication for people having no any other channel for information exchange. Such images could include common gestures, traffic signs, signs in transport, in the streets, in public accommodations and in state offices. They will include both single images, and their combinations forming a single conceptual complex (rules of table etiquette, on transport, and at the stadium etc.). It should be emphasized clearly that the dictionary offered is intended for interpersonal communication. A computer identification of images cannot be in this case a basic purpose for project realization. The orientation to interpersonal communication gives us a possibility to choose images for the dictionary and, what is not less significant, to set problems actually solvable at every stage of its creation.