Current Winners of the James R. Snyder International Student Paper of the Year Award
The Project
Management Institute Educational Foundation is proud to announce the
recipient of the 2008 PMI Global Congress - EMEA Award:
 Fatat
Bouraad
ESC-Lille School of Management: Ph.D. candidate –- Concentration: Project, Programme, and Strategy
Paper Title: IT Project Portfolio Governance: The Emerging Operation Manager
Abstract: Today’s IT organizations are under pressure to meet or improve IT service levels for critical business functions. Various industry standards, such as the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and the Controls Objective for Information and Related Technology (COBIT) standard, have gained wide acceptance as comprehensive methodologies for improving the effectiveness of IT management.
The role of IT operations management is subsequently changing from a component orientation (such as networks, systems, storage, database and applications) to managing business-oriented, end-to-end IT services.
This paper aims at conducting a detailed analysis of available literature in order to identify the most appropriate competencies and necessary skill sets that will be needed by an Operation Manager for strategic business alignment. It will address the desirable features of modern Operation Manager, and the impact of such features on the management performance of the IT operations management main activities in order to optimize benefits from the products or services and bridge the gap between IT strategy and business strategy.
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The Project
Management Institute Educational Foundation is proud to announce the
recipient of the 2008 PMI Global Congress - Latin America Award:
 Edivandro
Conforto
São Paulo University: Master’s candidate –- Concentration: Production Engineering
Paper Title: Evaluating an agile method for planning and controlling innovative projects
Abstract: This paper presents an investigation, an action research design, studied two technology based companies pertaining to the São Carlos technological pole, Brazil. Based on this multiple case study and a literature review, a method applying the Agile Project Management (APM) principles was developed. After the method was implemented, a qualitative evaluation was carried out by means of document analysis and questionnaires to address two research questions (RQs): (RQ1) Did the method benefit the companies’ project management? (RQ2) Could it be considered agile? This paper shows that the application of this method at the companies under investigation evidenced the benefits of using simple, visual and agile techniques to plan and control innovative product projects combined with traditional PM best practices, such as standardization. The results of this investigation may also contribute to the literature on APM and serve as a guide for future studies in this field..
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The Project
Management Institute Educational Foundation is proud to announce the
recipient of the 2008 PMI Global Congress - North America Award:
 Peter
Bennison
University of Ottawa, Canada: Master’s candidate –- Concentration: Engineering Management
Paper Title: Agile and PMBOK® Project Management Techniques: Closer than you think
Abstract: Although Agile software development techniques are considered to have ‘potential’ and Agile philosophies are not fundamentally at odds with the key knowledge areas of PMBOK®, Agile is typically overlooked in favor of the more established PMBOK® techniques. Reluctance to choose Agile techniques over more conventional project management procedures and tools seems to stem primarily from a lack of understanding of when and how PMBOK® and Agile techniques align and diverge. With reference to an experience of an Agile implementation on a large-scale public sector project, this paper identifies commonalities and differences between the two approaches in six key knowledge areas of project management: Integration Management, Scope Management, Time Management, Cost Management, Quality Management and Communications Management. Strategies for adapting Agile to successfully meet project needs are also described.
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