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Engineer-to-order Project Schedule Planning through a probabilistic simplified approach: a case study 通过概率简化方法进行工程师对订单项目进度计划:一个案例研究

The Journal of Modern Project Management Pub Date : 2019-12-13 DOI: 10.19255/JMPM02109

S. Salvatori, Vito Introna, V. Cesarotti, I. Baffo

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A proposal for sorting a projects portfolio through the ELECTRE TRI method focused on the European strategy 通过ELECTRE TRI方法对项目组合进行分类的建议侧重于欧洲战略

The Journal of Modern Project Management Pub Date : 2019-12-13 DOI: 10.19255/JMPM02105

R. Micale, A. Giallanza, Gabriella Li Puma, G. L. Scalia

{"title":"A proposal for sorting a projects portfolio through the ELECTRE TRI method focused on the European strategy","authors":"R. Micale, A. Giallanza, Gabriella Li Puma, G. L. Scalia","doi":"10.19255/JMPM02105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19255/JMPM02105","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the partnerships between private companies and public organizations are becoming key elements for improving local development, territorial competitiveness and for delivering innovation. These collaborations are widely promoted by the European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation thanks to the provision of several instruments, such as Horizon 2020. In this context, competitiveness’s improvement of the territory by means of research and innovation actions is supported by the technological districts. In Sicily, the AgroBioPesca district has attempted a strategic action named “Call for ideas” in order to design its own roadmap for research and innovation in agri-food sector. For this purpose, many proponents of public and/or private sectors presented several innovative project ideas referred to specific Technological Trajectories. This paper aims at providing an instrument able to select the most suitable project ideas in order to constitute the AgroBioPesca projects portfolio. To such an aim, the authors propose the application of the multiple criteria sorting method ELECTRE TRI considering criteria deduced by the Horizon 2020 guidelines and documents. The application of this methodology allows subdividing the project ideas received into project ideas to be rejected, reviewable and eligible for funding. Moreover, to consider the uncertainty of the decision makers’ judgment, the authors propose a new version of the method in which the crisp judgment is converted into an interval. A sensitivity analysis has lastly been conducted to study the weaknesses of non-financiable projects.","PeriodicalId":320094,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Modern Project Management","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130793053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Advanced Work Packaging in capital projects: a standardized model for EPC Contractors 资本项目中的先进工作打包:EPC承包商的标准化模型

The Journal of Modern Project Management Pub Date : 2019-12-13 DOI: 10.19255/JMPM02103

A. Calabrese, Marco Camaioni, Giovanni Piervincenzi

{"title":"Advanced Work Packaging in capital projects: a standardized model for EPC Contractors","authors":"A. Calabrese, Marco Camaioni, Giovanni Piervincenzi","doi":"10.19255/JMPM02103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19255/JMPM02103","url":null,"abstract":"The international context in which the major EPC Contractors operate is going through a period of profound transformation. The increasing complexity of the plants, the increasing costs of labor, the increasingly binding contractual requirements, have forced companies around the world to adapt to these market laws and raise the level of competitiveness through targeted business strategies. The main EP&C realities, national leader in the Oil & Gas sector, are constantly moving towards new process management techniques. The following work fits into this context by analyzing and deepening the process of breaking down the scope of work into the so-called Work Packages according to the Advanced Work Packaging methodology. AWP envisages a prioritization of the work, initially agreed between the various disciplines, with the ultimate aim of increasing performance in terms of time, cost, quality and alignment of the three macro-phases: Engineering, Procurement and Construction. After a thorough research on the previous bibliography, we analyzed the current process of management and decomposition of the scope of work. The result is an AWP application model, which, through modifications to the current management processes, provides a quantitative calculation tool to assess the amount of construction work related to a plant. The proposal is also extended to the engineering and procurement phase. This completely standardized process has a general validity and has been demonstrated through the application of two main projects. In the final part, the procedure was extended to all the types of systems made by Tecnimont, further demonstrating the extreme versatility of the methodology.","PeriodicalId":320094,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Modern Project Management","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124435669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The suppliers’ selection process through Extended Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution 基于扩展模糊认知图和理想解相似性偏好排序技术的供应商选择过程

The Journal of Modern Project Management Pub Date : 2019-12-13 DOI: 10.19255/JMPM02102

G. Mazzuto, L. Postacchini, F. Ciarapica, M. Bevilacqua

{"title":"The suppliers’ selection process through Extended Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution","authors":"G. Mazzuto, L. Postacchini, F. Ciarapica, M. Bevilacqua","doi":"10.19255/JMPM02102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19255/JMPM02102","url":null,"abstract":"In recent times, supplier selection has become one of the most important and crucial activities for companies. In this study, using the extended fuzzy cognitive maps (E-FCM) and technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS), a decision-making support system is realised to assist managers in this activity. E-FCM expresses a causal relationship among criteria, computing linguistic variables to describe a complex situation. The proposed system allows managers to conduct an a priori evaluation regarding supplier suitability, according to both company and market requirements. A panel of experts was formed, according to their expertise areas, to cover the entire problem domain and model it. The problem was investigated in terms of the factors identified by the experts, such as costs, delivery quality, organisational capability, supplier flexibility, service quality and supplied product quality. These factors were analysed using the TOPSIS approach to rank the suppliers, and the use of TOPSIS allows for discrimination of the E-FCM. This decision-making support system was applied to a real case scenario to test its functionality; in particular, an Italian shoes and accessories company. The TOPSIS ideal solutions were defined from two different points of view: based on the standard TOPSIS procedure and on specifics fixed by the company managers. The two approaches resulted in considerably different outcomes, highlighting the need to consider concepts related to company expectations in the E-FCM.","PeriodicalId":320094,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Modern Project Management","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115620700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A simulation approach for evaluating the impact of human behaviour on project scheduling 一种评估人类行为对项目进度影响的模拟方法

The Journal of Modern Project Management Pub Date : 2019-12-13 DOI: 10.19255/JMPM02107

A. Santolamazza, Vito Introna, V. Cesarotti, M. Benedetti

{"title":"A simulation approach for evaluating the impact of human behaviour on project scheduling","authors":"A. Santolamazza, Vito Introna, V. Cesarotti, M. Benedetti","doi":"10.19255/JMPM02107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19255/JMPM02107","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing organizational complexity and competitiveness in industry is driving the interest in project management to ensure successful businesses. Uncertainty in estimating activities’ duration is one of the main criticalities of the planning phase, especially in the industrial environment, where most projects, such as the optimization or qualification of new lines, usually require the involvement of resources whose commitment is almost never bound to just one task. In this context, the impact of human behaviour if not properly considered, can lead to serious damage in terms of time and costs and these hidden risks need to be properly assessed. The present study aims to analyse and quantify the impact of human behaviours (as described by Parkinson’s Law, Student Syndrome and hidden safety) on the project in terms of delays in scheduled time though the use of a Monte Carlo simulation. The objective of the methodology is to provide the project manager with the insight required to consciously address the uncertainties of the scheduling phase in order to ensure the success of the project. In order to illustrate the methodology in a more comprehensive way, a case study regarding a project for the innovation of the production process in a real industrial plant is provided.","PeriodicalId":320094,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Modern Project Management","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128407856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The evolution of Project Management (PM): How Agile, Lean and Six Sigma are changing PM 项目管理的演变:敏捷、精益和六西格玛如何改变项目管理

The Journal of Modern Project Management Pub Date : 2019-12-13 DOI: 10.19255/JMPM02108

Silvia Gubinelli, V. Cesarotti, Vito Introna

{"title":"The evolution of Project Management (PM): How Agile, Lean and Six Sigma are changing PM","authors":"Silvia Gubinelli, V. Cesarotti, Vito Introna","doi":"10.19255/JMPM02108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19255/JMPM02108","url":null,"abstract":"The pressure for speed, technical or design complexity increase interactions and high complexity of projects. Conventional techniques quickly become inadequate. The literature of the last twenty years about project management (PM), suggests that the evolution of PM Techniques will be driven by theories from Operational Excellence (OE). The OE technique, as Lean, Agile and Six Sigma, grows the awareness that reducing variation in workflow allows both time and cost to be reduced. OE approaches and tools enriches PM techniques and proposes the way to reduce wastes and add value in their project performance culture by encouraging teams to work together in a more transparent and collaborative way, facilitating the effective project deployment and organization for minimizing resources, costs, durations and risks. This contamination would make PM techniques be more effective in managing current projects, where the context affects the weight-cost-quality triangle. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the contamination of Lean, Agile and Six Sigma in the traditional approach to project management. This paper highlights how the traditional approaches to PM suggest the steps to carry out, while the techniques acquired by operational excellence (as Lean, Agile and Six Sigma) give suggestions on “how” to perform the steps proposed. The merging of the different techniques, based on the context characteristics, seems a concrete answer to the current problems of the PM.","PeriodicalId":320094,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Modern Project Management","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114827365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 7

Project monitoring by dynamic statistical control charts 项目监控采用动态统计控制图

The Journal of Modern Project Management Pub Date : 2019-12-13 DOI: 10.19255/JMPM02106

G. Galante, C. M. L. Fata, G. Passannanti

引用次数: 1

Globalization, the New Economy and Project Management: a Graph Theory Perspective 全球化、新经济与项目管理:图论视角

The Journal of Modern Project Management Pub Date : 2019-10-16 DOI: 10.19255/JMPM508

Janice Jeffs, B. Papillon

{"title":"Globalization, the New Economy and Project Management: a Graph Theory Perspective","authors":"Janice Jeffs, B. Papillon","doi":"10.19255/JMPM508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19255/JMPM508","url":null,"abstract":"Satisfaction of human needs requires resources, tangible ones, metals, machineries and less tangible ones like human time and human capital. Specialization creates a distance between resources and needs. Industrialization and its successor, globalization, have kept increasing this distance, along its geographical dimension, but also along its organizational dimension. Specialization poses numerous challenges: information collection, coordination, communication, motivation, enforcement. Since early industrialization transformation of the artisan shop, firms are the main response to these challenges. Firms have devoted an increasing amount of human resources to management tasks over the last century. An avenue to account for the growing popularity of PM among firms under globalization is to show how PM approach can be, in some context, a more economical way to organize management tasks than traditional business management. The paper presents, first, the hypothesis in a historical perspective, using a concept of distance from theory of value and transaction cost analysis. This translates management tasks into costs but lacks preciseness. From another perspective, a structured set of management tasks is a graph connecting a pool of resources in some location(s) with things fulfilling needs elsewhere. The hypothesis becomes one about the properties of the graphs, such as the relative duration of the critical path, of the PM and other approaches to meeting some of the challenges, for instance coordination, raised by specialization. The paper then explores ways to bring preciseness with graph theory applications to management at operational and organizational levels, emphasizing PM.","PeriodicalId":320094,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Modern Project Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117109948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Managing tensions and paradoxes between stakeholders in a complex project context: Case study and model proposal 管理复杂项目环境中涉众之间的紧张关系和矛盾:案例研究和模型建议

The Journal of Modern Project Management Pub Date : 2019-10-16 DOI: 10.19255/JMPM02012

François Labelle, Aliénor de Rouffignac, P. Lemire, C. Bredillet, S. Barnabé

{"title":"Managing tensions and paradoxes between stakeholders in a complex project context: Case study and model proposal","authors":"François Labelle, Aliénor de Rouffignac, P. Lemire, C. Bredillet, S. Barnabé","doi":"10.19255/JMPM02012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19255/JMPM02012","url":null,"abstract":"Stakeholder (SH) management has recently undertaken a turn from the traditional management \"of\" to managing \"for\" and \"with\" SH. Relating to this relational trend, identification and management tensions between SH is an important area of study. Indeed, from how to live with and/or resolve or not those tensions depends the possibility of building the most beneficial cooperation possible between SH for the continuation of the project, to obtain win-win results, and promote shared value and common good. For this purpose, a theoretical model is suggested, based on the approaches of paradoxes and conventionalist economy of worth, supporting the identification of tensions between SH and their justifications, and the clarification it helps to bring as to win-win or shared value outcomes, or the absence of such, in the context of a complex project. The suggested model is then used in an exploratory case study. The goal is to assess its relevance, usefulness and quality. Two theoretical contributions emerge from the data analysed: 1) several tensions over various categories (allegiance, dimensional, temporal, learning, performance and spatial) can draw on the same justifications (rationale that oppose industrial and domestic conventions); 2) a prioritization of tension categories can make it easier to resolve them.","PeriodicalId":320094,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Modern Project Management","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129016568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Using Patterns to Capture and Transfer Tacit Knowledge in Virtual Project Teams 在虚拟项目团队中使用模式获取和转移隐性知识

The Journal of Modern Project Management Pub Date : 2019-10-16 DOI: 10.19255/JMPM02002

S. Kögl, Gilbert Silvius

引用次数: 3