scholarly journals Homeworking Project Management & Agility as the New Normal in a Covid-19 World

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patcharin Sonjit ◽  
Nicholas Dacre ◽  
David Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Organisational Routines ◽  
Project Management Processes ◽  
High Level

The Covid-19 global pandemic crisis has had a deep and profound impact on fundamental elements of society, the economy, and the environment as a whole. Key organisations, businesses, sectors and industries vital for delivering crucial projects have been affected by the relatively fast onset of Covid-19 on a global scale. As a result, organisational routines and project management processes that would have focused on established methods and practices have incurred dramatic changes leading to a greater emphasis on agility as part of a more exhaustive strategic Covid-19 world, where new routines and processes become embedded as the new normal. This research focuses on the increased demand in Homeworking Project Management (HPM) and more significant agility requirements across dispersed virtual project management teams. Initial insights from semi-structured interviews with a cross-section of 12 high-level project professionals suggest that; (i) Transitional homeworking project management processes have a direct impact on collaborative and operational routines; (ii) There is a greater level of demand on agility with HPM teams which do not necessarily have the organisational infrastructure to support these, (iii) Technological resources are becoming a primary concern with inequality of information across HPM teams, and (iv) Increasing critical bottlenecks across dispersed HPM teams is adversely affecting tenable project outcomes.

scholarly journals Research of the toolkit features for the evaluation and development of project-oriented management in a full cycle engineering company

Vestnik MGSU ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 634-649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir V. Kudrevatykh
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Maturity Models ◽  
Project Approach ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Management Evaluation ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Engineering Company ◽  
Project Management Processes

Introduction. Analysis of existing foreign and Russian project management maturity models revealed the absence of tools for assessing the maturity of project management, which would take into account the specifics of the functioning of engineering companies and the implementation of engineering projects. The uniformity of such models limits the list of evaluated aspects of project management, which does not allow to fully cover the project management processes operating in engineering companies. Such processes should include engineering, management of intangible assets, control and acceptance of the results of engineering works, management of construction and installation works, and so on. To solve the problem, it is necessary to develop special tools for the assessment and development of project management, which will take into account engineering-specific processes. The toolkit will allow to quantify the degree of implementation of the project approach to the activities of an engineering company and to plan the continuous improvement of the processes and tools of project management in it. The subject of the research is the development of tools for assessing and developing project-oriented management in a full-cycle engineering company. Materials and methods. Applied the method of comparative analysis, survey method and method of semi-structured interviews. Results. The article formulates the features of project management in engineering companies. The main types of maturity models of project management are considered, their distinctive features are revealed. Tools for the evaluation and development of project management for the Russian engineering company full cycle are formulated. The assessment of the levels of formalization of project management processes was carried out, their current and target states were determined. Set of measures for the development of processes and tools of project management is planned. Conclusions. The toolkit for project management evaluation and development proposed in the article allows to carry out structural analysis of project management processes and the level of their formalization, to implement improvements based on the results of evaluation not only in the engineering company under consideration, but also in project-oriented organizations implementing similar projects.

Factors Affecting Sustainability of Project Management Processes

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-18
Author(s):  
Ahmed Oraby ◽  
Mohamed Mohamdeen ◽  
Hassan Hassan ◽  
Ibrahim Nosseir
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Project Management Processes

Engineering and Construction Projects Characteristics

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Complex Projects ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Project Management Processes

Companies try to use better techniques to deal with complex projects. The maturity of companies to apply these better techniques can guarantee project success or not. The environment, where the engineering and construction project is developed, also has influence over the success. The maturity of a company's project management processes is also a factor of success. This chapter aims to talk about concepts related to engineering and construction initiatives.

A Review on Software Project Management Ontologies

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 54-72
Author(s):  
Omiros Iatrellis ◽  
Panos Fitsilis
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Ontology Development ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Domain Modeling ◽  
Software Project Management ◽  
Software Life Cycle ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Project Management Processes

This article aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive background for understanding current knowledge and research works on ontologies for software project management (SPM). It constitutes a systematic literature review behind key objectives of the potential adoption of ontologies in PM. Ontology development and engineering could facilitate substantially the software development process and improve knowledge management, software and artifacts reusability, internal consistency within project management processes of various phases of software life cycle. The authors examined the literature focusing on software project management ontologies and analyzed the findings of these published papers and categorized them accordingly. They used qualitative methods to evaluate and interpret findings of the collected studies. The literature review, among others, has highlighted lack of standardization in terminology and concepts, lack of systematic domain modeling and use of ontologies mainly in prototype ontology systems that address rather limited aspects of software project management processes.

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