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Article Quality Management, Communications Management, Lessons Learned 1 June 2020

Project Management Journal

Major Knowledge Diffusion Paths of Megaproject Management

By Wu, Hengqin | Xue, Xiaolong | Zhao, Zebin | Wang, Zeyu | Shen, Qiping | Luo, Xiaowei This article integrates social network analysis and main path analysis to investigate progress in megaproject management (MPM) from the perspective of knowledge diffusion. After measuring three…

Article Quality Management, Communications Management, Teams 1 April 2017

PM Network

In the Rearview Mirror

By Rockwood, Kate After a long haul, project managers and team members might feel the urge to wrap things up so they can move on to the next big thing. But giving short shrift to the debriefing process could…

Article Quality Management, Communications Management, Stakeholder Engagement 1 March 2017

PM Network

Delivering the Wow Factor

By Simonsen, Amber Your most recent project came in on time, on budget and within scope—and stakeholders were satisfied. But something still seemed missing—you have a gnawing notion that your project checked a box…

Article Quality Management, Communications Management 1 February 2017

Project Management Journal

Influence of Communication on Client Satisfaction in Information System Projects

By Diegmann, Phil | Basten, Dirk | Pankratz, Oleg This study illuminates the role of client-vendor communication in relation to project performance and client satisfaction in information system projects. Results from a field study with managers on…

Article Quality Management, Change Management, Communications Management, Strategy, Stakeholder Engagement 1 January 2017

PM Network

Keep Your Guard Up

By Robinson, Andrew Way back in 1970, David Crosby lamented in a song of the times about how, in a moment of weakness, he almost cut his hair. I can relate. Letting down my guard as COO almost led to regret. I recently…

Conference Paper Communications Management, Quality Management, Organizational Culture 26 October 2014

Changing the culture to a customer-centric organization

By Levin, Ginger The Project Management Institute (PMI) points out in its "Pulse of the profession®" report that too many programs and projects fail to meet customer expectations, and the result is a decrease in…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Communications Management 23 October 2012

Project emergency

By Wright, Scott A "project emergency" is a relative term that has different meaning to individual stakeholders. It can be the slippage of a project by one day to the catastrophic failure of a mega project worth…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Innovation, Communications Management, Information Technology 10 May 2011

Project management use of cloud collaboration

By Dillon, Liam | Scanlon, Rory With projects, we are always drawing up plans and trying to carry them out, usually as part of a team, which ultimately delivers on project execution. This is the basic principle behind project…

Conference Paper PMO, Risk Management, Quality Management, Change Management, Communications Management 13 October 2009

Herding the global cats of a successful PMO

By Margules, Cindy Over the past decade, organizations worldwide have been establishing project management offices (PMOs) so that they can more effectively manage projects and integrate project management into their…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Communications Management 2007

Lessons learned

By Rowe, Sandra F. By capturing the lessons learned from implementing projects, organizations can help their project professionals develop and mature their existing knowledge and generate new information that ensure…