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Conference Paper Quality Management, Strategy, Organizational Project Management, Skill Development 18 July 2012

Towards the advancement of project management practice in developing countries

By Zuofa, Tarila. | Ochieng, Edward G. Project management in most developing countries today continues to be fractured in its structure and approach, thereby triggering high degrees of failure, abandonment, or collapse of most government…

Article Quality Management, Leadership, Skill Development February 2011

Project Management Journal

Leadership substitutes and personality impact on time and quality in virtual new product development projects

By Strang, Kenneth David Leadership, personality, and organizational factors were analyzed to measure their combined effect on virtual-based new product development (NPD) time and scope-quality performance. Over 1,000 team…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Leadership, Skill Development 12 October 2010

The evolution from a project manager into a project leader

By Wills, Kerry R. Today's organizations demand much from their project managers, not only in terms of quantity managed, but also in relation to quality achieved. To compete in today's continuously evolving…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Skill Development 19 May 2008

Applying lessons learned

By Rowe, Sandra F. Organizations can effectively improve project performance and increase project management competency by learning from both previous project successes and previous project failures. This paper…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Leadership, Skill Development 2006

The lens and the mirror

By Homer, John L. When it comes to identifying the factors that enable project success, many project professionals embrace one of two perspectives: Projects succeed because of a project manager's leadership abilities…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Complexity, Skill Development 13 September 2005

Accelerating your project using facilitated work sessions

By Means, Jan | Adams, Tammy When organizations implement projects, they must confront several internal issues that influence project outcome, issues related to speed, complexity, quality, and ownership. When such negative…

Conference Paper Program Management, Quality Management, Lean, Skill Development, Technical Skills 26 October 2004

Using metrics as a catalyst in achieving successful project performance

By Rad, Parviz F. | Levin, Ginger Organizations that are forward-looking and progressive in their strategic plans are continually working to improve performance in achieving sustained success in all areas including managing projects…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Skill Development, Technical Skills 3 October 2002

Seminars & Symposium

Successful project management for software product and information system development

By Ebert, Luba Project management has been used extensively in the engineering, construction and defense industries. Software product development companies are starting to rely on project management and sound…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Skill Development 1 November 2001

Seminars & Symposium

Best practices lessons learned (BPLL)

By Berke, Marsha Frank If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got. - Jackie "Moms" MableyRaising the Corporate Intelligence Quotient (CIQ): Corporate intelligence is the ability to learn…