scholarly journals EXAMINING THE DIFFERENT FACTORS OF THE MID-TERM PERFORMANCE OF DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN VERY POOR COUNTRIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-44
Author(s):  
Mahamadi Nanéma ◽  
Dr. Théophile Bindeouè Nassè ◽  
Prof. Alidou Ouédraogo
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Development Project ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Variable Environment ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Performance Project ◽  
Term Performance

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the factors of performance in the development projects of the very poor countries in general and in particular in the context of Burkina Faso. It is about the identification of the internal and external factors that explain the level of mid-term performance of the development projects. The methodology is focused on a quantitative approach with a limited sample of 35 respondents due to some professional and technical problems. The research results show, first, that there are two internal factors to project management namely the planning variable and the Human resources management variable that positively and significantly influence mid-term performance of development projects in Burkina Faso.  Second, with con identified external factors, the variable environment or area of project intervention influences positively and significantly the mid-term performance of development projects in Burkina Faso. The recommendation is that these factors should be considered by development project managers and governmental authorities. Keywords: Mid-term performance, Project, Development Project, World Bank, Burkina Faso.

Research On Risks Encountered By Institutions In European Development Project

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 517-520
Author(s):  
Diana Elena Ranf ◽  
Elida-Tomiţa Todăriţa ◽  
Dănuţ Dumitru Dumitraşcu
Keyword(s):  
Development Project ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Application Form ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Development Opportunity ◽  
Centre Region ◽  
European Development ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Risk Categories ◽  
Implementation Stage

AbstractEuropean funds are a development opportunity for the Romanian organizations. The research in the article aims to identify the main risk categories that the beneficiaries from Centre Region have faced, and also the effects of not considering certain risk categories in the stage of filling out the application form and also in the implementation stage of the projects have had on the development of these projects. Identifying how the organisations have managed projects during the development projects 2003-2013 finds its usefulness in the following period that is knocking on our doors: 2014-2020 that should find us better prepared and more capable of proving seriousness and professionalism. Therefore, training in projects should not end once the structural funds have been attracted, but it should be regarded as destined to modernize our way of thinking and actions in helping organisations develop their businesses.

scholarly journals A viability criterion for computer system development projects

1984 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 144-149
Author(s):  
J. Mende
Keyword(s):  
Computer System ◽  
Cost Of Capital ◽  
System Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Organizational Growth ◽  
Net Worth ◽  
Development Costs ◽  
Processing Cost ◽  
Informational Value

A manager facing the decision whether to proceed with a proposed computer system development project needs to determine whether its benefits are worth more than its costs. This can be done by applying a simple mathematical formula to calculate the project's 'net worth', as the sum of the annual benefits obtainable during the system's life span, less its development costs. The formula recognizes that a system's annual benefit, comprising enhanced informational value plus reduction In data processing cost, will change as a result of obsolescence, cost of capital, organizational growth and learning.

STAKEHOLDERS, SPATIAL LOCATIONS AND TIME HORIZONS IN AN EXTENDED SOCIAL COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS: A CASE OF PIPALPANKHA WATER RESOURCE PROJECT

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (02) ◽  
pp. 245-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. RAM BABU ◽  
NALLATHIGA RAMAKRISHNA
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Social Cost ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
Time Horizons ◽  
Spatial Locations

Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) has been serving as an important tool for decision making with regard to the development projects involving large investments. The Social Cost-Benefit Analysis (SCBA) is an extension of the CBA to certain social impacts, which hitherto were not measured. As the impacts of development projects on ecology and environment assumed importance, measuring the corresponding costs and benefits also began to assume significance. With the advancement in economic valuation techniques over time, measurement could be done and the framework of SCBA has been extended to incorporate the same. Moreover, unlike the CBAs, which do not account for the distributional aspects, the SCBA can potentially account for these. This paper presents a case study of extending the SCBA framework to include social and environmental impacts of a large water resource development project in India. It emphasises the distribution of project benefits and costs over stakeholders, spatial locations and time horizons so as to demonstrate the utility of extended SCBA in project decision making. It is observed that both the numeraire measure i.e. cost-benefit ratio, as well as the distributional analysis present a favourable case for the project.

scholarly journals Suppliers’ software development project start-up practices

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 880-896
Author(s):  
Helena Merikoski ◽  
Paula Savolainen ◽  
Jarmo J. Ahonen
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Cycle Phase ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Context ◽  
Software Development Project ◽  
Business Goals ◽  
Start Up

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a life cycle phase of a software development project which is substantial for the success of the project. This paper visualizes the project start-up phase from suppliers’ perspective. Design/methodology/approach The method is a theory building from case studies. The data were collected from three software supplier firms by conducting process modeling separately in each firm. Findings The study resulted in a model of a supplier’s software project start-up which includes start-up practices and involved roles. The results indicate that project start-up is an integral and structured phase of project life cycle, which influences the execution of a software development project, especially from the supplier’s perspective in the project business context. Research limitations/implications The study focuses on the start-up phase of software development projects delivered to external customers. Therefore, developed project start-up model is applicable as such in software supplier firms. Practical implications The project start-up model presented in this paper indicates that project start-up is a complex and multi-dimensional activity in a supplier firm. This study suggests that if the project start-up phase is clearly defined, planned and followed in a supplier firm, it reduces confusion and miscommunication among the people involved in the project and helps to achieve the business goals of a project. Originality/value This study emphasizes that it is necessary to make a distinction between the perspectives of the customer and the supplier when studying projects in the project business context. The findings contribute the new knowledge for managing outsourced software development projects.

scholarly journals Development on Indigenous Homelands and the Need to Get Back to Basics with Scoping: Is there Still "Unceded" Land in Northern Ontario, Canada, with Respect to Treaty No. 9 and its Adhesions?

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-49
Author(s):  
Leonard Tsuji ◽  
Stephen Tsuji
Keyword(s):  
Literature Search ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Northern Ontario ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Library And Archives Canada ◽  
Bare Minimum ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Search

Scoping includes the establishment of unambiguous spatial boundaries for a proposed development project (e.g., a treaty) and is especially important with respect to development on Indigenous homelands. Improper scoping leads to a flawed product, such as a flawed treaty or environmental impact assessment, by excluding stakeholders from the process. A comprehensive literature search was conducted to gather (and collate) printed and online material in relation to Treaty No. 9 and its Adhesions, as well as the Line-AB. We searched academic databases as well as the Library and Archives Canada. The examination of Treaty No. 9 and its Adhesions revealed that there is unceded land in each of four separate scenarios, which are related to the Line-AB and/or emergent land in Northern Ontario, Canada. Lastly, we present lessons learned from our case study. However, since each development initiative and each Indigenous Nation is unique, these suggestions should be taken as a bare minimum or starting point for the scoping process in relation to development projects on Indigenous homelands.

scholarly journals Uncertainty-reducing techniques in technological innovation

1980 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-93
Author(s):  
A. J.A. Sparrius
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Time Pressure ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Development Projects

Technology-intensive innovation is fraught with all sorts of uncertainties - uncertainties which can neither be averted nor ignored but have to be managed. This paper discusses techniques on how to handle such uncertainties in high-technology development projects under conditions of severe time pressure. The key lies in postponing decision-making if uncertainty is intolerably high, and structuring the development project in such a manner that progress is not delayed, while taking steps to rapidly and systematically reduce the uncertainty. These techniques turn out to be simple but profound.Tegnologie-intensiewe innovasie word gekenmerk deur allerlei soorte onsekerhede - onsekerhede wat nog vermy nog verontagsaam kan word. Hierdie artikel bespreek tegnieke vir die hantering van sulke onsekerhede in hoe-tegnologie ontwikkelingsprojekte onder ernstige tydsdruk. Die sleutel le in die uitstel van besluitneming indien die onsekerhede ontoelaatbaar groot is, en in die strukturering van die ontwikkelingsprojek in so 'n wyse dat vordering nie belemmer word nie, terwyl stappe geneem word om die onsekerhede vinnig maar stelselmatig uit die weg te ruim. Hierdie tegnieke blyk eenvoudig dog diepgaande te wees.

scholarly journals International Real Estate Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-264
Author(s):  
Steve P. Fraser ◽  
◽  
Marcus T. Allen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Residential Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Golf Course ◽  
Golf Club ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Real Estate Price ◽  
Price Premiums

Considerable prior research confirms the existence of real estate price premiums associated with golf course amenities in residential development projects. This study examines a unique residential development project in which membership in a golf club is appurtenant to the real estate: ownership of certain (but not all) dwellings in the project includes deeded membership in the project¡¦s golf club. In this development project, golf memberships can only be obtained or disposed of by acquiring or selling the associated dwelling, respectively. The results of this analysis indicates that price premiums associated with appurtenant golf memberships, after controlling for golf course view and other relevant property characteristics, are significantly positive. Furthermore, the results indicate that the magnitude of the price premium for appurtenant golf memberships varies across dwelling types (detached vs. attached) in this project. These findings may be important for housing developers, consumers, lenders, appraisers, and property and income tax authorities.

scholarly journals ‘We’ll Help Ourselves, but What’s in It for Us?’ Conflict, Development and Social Mobility among Roma in Romania

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 365-378
Author(s):  
Ana Ivasiuc
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Strategic Group ◽  
Related Development ◽  
Upward Social Mobility ◽  
The Cost

AbstractRoma-related development and policy discourse often represents the Roma development ‘subjects’ as disempowered victims. Against the pervasiveness of such narratives, a close look at the local level conflicts arising during the implementation of a World Bank development project in destitute Roma communities from Romania lays bare the strategies of unassisted social mobility in which a group of Roma engage. Not large or well-defined enough to be constituted into a real ‘class’ in sociological terms, this strategic group is made up of Roma civil servants (mediators, local experts, Romani language teachers) who negotiate their engagement in development projects on their own terms and use the material and immaterial resources that projects offer to enact their own upward social mobility. Often, though, this comes at the cost of a growing socio-economic gap between themselves and the most destitute parts of Roma communities, which complicates their involvement in development projects. The article underlines the necessity of taking into account both the strategies of unassisted social mobility of Roma development brokers, and the internal power imbalances that the development apparatus inevitably ends up producing in Roma communities.

Space-borne terrain deformation monitoring for large infrastructure projects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regula Frauenfelder ◽  
Malte Vöge ◽  
Sean E. Salazar ◽  
Carsten Hauser
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Geodetic Survey ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Deformation Monitoring ◽  
Cost Driver ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Visual Interpretation ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Railway Line

<p>Ground settlement and associated deformation of existing infrastructure is a major risk in urban development projects. Project owners have a responsibility to document and manage settlement records before, during and after construction works. Traditionally, land surveying (e.g. leveling and total station) techniques have been the state-of-practice to provide settlement monitoring data. However, in big infrastructure projects, conventional geodetic data acquisition is a major cost driver. Modern space-borne radar interferometry (InSAR) provides the opportunity to drastically increase the number of monitored locations, while at the same time reducing expenses for traditional geodetic survey work. Furthermore, the method allows for highly effective monitoring during all phases of a project.</p><p>The application of InSAR technology is demonstrated for three large development projects near Oslo, the capital of Norway. Showcase examples include a new highway development project and two railway line upgrade projects. In two of the cases, InSAR monitoring was performed by exploiting very high resolution TerraSAR-X data (ca. 1.5 x 1.5 m spatial ground resolution), and in one case, using high resolution Radarsat-2 data (ca. 7 x 7 m spatial ground resolution). A combined area of 127 km<sup>2</sup> was monitored for all three projects, yielding a total of roughly 800,000 measurement points on the ground. Achieved measurement point density based on the TerraSAR-X data was around 37,000 points per km<sup>2</sup>, while density based on the Radarsat-2 data resulted in approximately 6,000 points per km<sup>2</sup> in built-up areas. Both data resolutions offer millimetric deformation precision, with surfaces of buildings and infrastructure providing the best signal reflection and phase coherence, resulting in high-quality results. In all cases, the interferometric time series analyses were communicated to the end users through a web-based map portal, enabling simple visual interpretation of the results, as well as integration with the settlement records of the project.</p>

scholarly journals Theoretical justification for development as an institution for the development of investment and construction

2018 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 01117
Author(s):  
Elena Soboleva
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Theoretical Justification ◽  
Development Activity ◽  
Current Economic Situation ◽  
Overall Efficiency ◽  
The Impact

The article is devoted to the theoretical aspects of development, project activities, the search and substantiation of the institutional importance of the development of this direction in the current economic situation in Russia, the construction industry, the problems of realizing development projects and the impact of the quality of operational evaluation of development projects on overall efficiency, efficiency and development of construction activities in a crisis and the quality of project management. An algorithm for the formation of development activity as an institution for the development of the investment and construction sphere in Russia has been developed. Theoretically, the algorithm and methodological approach to the quality management of the development project efficiency is justified.

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