This paper highlights the subject of integrated projects planning (IPP) in contemporary IS departments, and presents a multi-period, multi-project selection and assignment approach (MPPA) to assist the departments in handling continuous project-based IS requests. The MPPA features a model to...

The field of Project Management has become increasingly important lately. Nowadays there are different types of educational programs which promise providing the necessary knowledge to those interested in joining the large world of business. If you want to be a certified project manager, you must...

Traditional cost contingency estimation relies heavily on expert judgment based on various cost-engineering standards. This paper compares project stages, accuracy ranges, and cost contingencies recommended by the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International and the Electric...

Project risks have never been so present. First, projects are dealing with bigger stakes and facing stronger constraints. Moreover, projects must cope with an ever-growing complexity. Risks have then increased in number and criticality. Lists of identified project risks thus need to be...

Grant project management is now a trend in the institutions of various types in Romania due to the opportunities offered by the EU through structural Instruments. Absorbing European funds is a challenge for Romania. The Managing Authority for Structural Instruments, together with the...

The main aim of this study is to analyse the development trends of project management with the focus on the management of IT projects. The initial parts of the work are devoted to the analysis of the concepts concerning project management and their relation to the management of processes. Next,...

In this paper we propose an adaptive model for multi-mode project scheduling under uncertainty. We assume that there is a due date for concluding the project and a tardiness penalty for failing to meet this due date, and that several distinct modes may be used to undertake each activity. We...

The effects of different activities on risk and the expected completion time of a project are not the same; various activities have various effects on the successful completion of a project. Based on this fact, one of the most important issues in project management is to determine important...

(VF)Au sein des pôles de compétitivité français, des projets collaboratifs font travailler ensemble, sur une même zone géographique, des salariés de PME, de grands groupes et de laboratoires publics, autant d’acteurs relevant d’objectifs, de cultures professionnelles et de systèmes...

Anyone who has ever been involved in (managing) a project is most probably convinced of a complex correlation between project constraints, and a constant need to compromise. There lies the paradox of the conventional wisdom in project planning, setting the objectives and constraints, and...