Various critical authors have questioned the salience, efficacy and power effects of formal project management bodies of knowledge (PMBoKs). As a result project management knowledge tools are increasingly being conceptualized along more flexible, adaptable, reflexive, democratic and informal...

The article looks into the performance issues, and the cost – benefit approach on audits, viewed in a broader sense (project management) but also analyses the limits of this approach, that can provide a quantitative dimension to the surplus value. With this purpose, the quantitative analysis...

The goal of this article is to survey the relevant literature on project scheduling with possible activity failures from a number of different disciplines, and to distill from these sources the formulation of a general optimization problem, the further study of which we would like to foster...

Romanian Project Excellence Award competition has already four years as history. The paper presents the main results of this awards, the theoretical basis of the excellence model used for the assessement and the practicies in the model implementation in Romania.

Using metrics and indicators for the evaluation of the IT projects management have the advantage of providing rigorous details about the required effort and the boundaries of the IT deliverables. There are some disadvantages, as well, due to the fact the input data contains errors and the value...

The paper presents an e-Learning platform in project management centred on the learner and based on advanced technologies, such as: ontology, competence standards, IMS Standards.

Project scheduling, risk analysis and project tracking are key parameters to a project's success or failure. Research on the relative sensitivity of project activities during the project scheduling phase as well as research on project performance measurement during project progress have been...

Development is about people’s lives and their opportunities to use and enlarge their desirable human potentials. This article aims to switch the focus in design, implementation and evaluation of projects, from only an abstracted conception of ‘the project’ and the goods which...

All changes that „govern” the economy, the society, the organization and the management based on knowledge (new world trends) could not have been implemented without projects. Also, the economy, society, organization and its management could not have adapted and develop should there not have...