{"title":"Success Factors of ICT Projects in Digital Transformation","authors":"Fabian Lang, Tom Laurenz Müller","doi":"10.18485/epmj.2021.11.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/epmj.2021.11.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":371624,"journal":{"name":"European Project Management Journal","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121916640","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}
Jelena Miličević, Filip R. Filipović, Ivan Jezdovic, T. Naumović, Miloš Radenković
{"title":"Scrum Agile Framework in E-business Project Management: An Approach to Teaching Scrum","authors":"Jelena Miličević, Filip R. Filipović, Ivan Jezdovic, T. Naumović, Miloš Radenković","doi":"10.18485/epmj.2019.9.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/epmj.2019.9.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"With the rise of agile within companies worldwide, it is crucial for information systems education to keep up with this trend to ensure curriculum and courses are up-to-date. The topic of agile in teaching and learning is critically important. This paper attempts to point out the need to understand and implement learning about the agile approach to education. The aim of the paper is to explain Scrum and its application in student education in IT project management areas. We propose a method for managing students’ project using Scrum, which enables students to learn the subject matter in a project-oriented approach. The idea is that students who study IT project management learn Scrum by leading another student team making an IoT project. The implementation was provided at The Department of e-business, Faculty of Organisational Sciences. In conclusion, the results of teaching Scrum in this way are presented and show that scrum application has a positive impact on project implementation and student education.","PeriodicalId":371624,"journal":{"name":"European Project Management Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130946511","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}
Mark H Stumpf, Manfred Brandstätter, Jana Borghoff
{"title":"Sustainable Project Management and the Role of Integrated Communications (IC)","authors":"Mark H Stumpf, Manfred Brandstätter, Jana Borghoff","doi":"10.18485/epmj.2019.9.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/epmj.2019.9.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"When research and development projects fail, it is basically due to insufficient – and thus non-sustainable – communication within and outside the project organization. The concept of Integrated Communications, which literature discusses as a principle of Sustainability Communications, provides approaches to more effectively master certain challenges of project communications. In this respect, literature argues, for example, that integration of contents, form, and timing, both within project communication and between project and corporate communication, is a prerequisite to ensuring companies are on the same page, hence consistent, when communicating about project contents. Taking the success factors of Integrated Communications identified in previous empirical studies as a starting point, this contribution will investigate, based on university projects, whether these factors can also be applied to project communications and to what extent they influence the success of project communications. Finally, the conclusion offers recommended action to facilitate sustainable project communications and provides recommendations for further research in this area.","PeriodicalId":371624,"journal":{"name":"European Project Management Journal","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129428729","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}
{"title":"Multi-Project Management in the Corona Crisis","authors":"Claus Hüsselmann, Paul Golfels","doi":"10.18485/epmj.2020.10.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/epmj.2020.10.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":371624,"journal":{"name":"European Project Management Journal","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134036216","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}
{"title":"The Impact of Overheads Variation on Time-Cost Optimisation of Building Infrastructure Projects","authors":"D. Kantianis","doi":"10.18485/epmj.2020.10.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/epmj.2020.10.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"Received:23 November 2020 Revised: 16 December 2020 Accepted: 28 December 2020 Abstract: The research aims at investigating the impact of indirect expenses (overheads) variation on time-cost optimisation (TCO) of building infrastructure projects. The study’s main objectives are to propose a practical methodology for time-cost planning of buildings and to analyse the relationship between level of overheads and minimum project duration with respect to contractor’s profitability. The methodology entails the development of a TCO linear programming (LP) model founded on PERT/CPM network analysis, and its subsequent implementation to an actual public building project a three-storey nursery school for a municipality for the assessment of minimum project duration for a given gross profit when altering the fixed amount of overheads. The LP mathematical model is solved with Solver optimisation add-in for Microsoft Excel. Useful prototype minimum project duration vs. project overheads trade-off curves are derived to support project management decisions. The proposed TCO approach may serve as a valuable scheduling tool, providing stakeholders important insight into the relationship between level of project overheads, profit and duration. The study is expected to assist both construction researchers and practitioners towards more effective decisionmaking in the planning process of building projects.","PeriodicalId":371624,"journal":{"name":"European Project Management Journal","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128382846","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}
{"title":"Work Absenteeism Management in Project-Oriented Organizations","authors":"Anđela Lipovac","doi":"10.18485/epmj.2020.10.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/epmj.2020.10.2.4","url":null,"abstract":": Absenteeism is absence from work for both justified and unjustified reasons, a disruptive phenomenon for business whose trend is constantly and steadily growing. The causes can be various, such as family problems, health problems etc. In project-oriented organizations, project team members are more likely to experience extremely high levels of job stress which eventually leads to absenteeism. Consequently, projects can be stopped or delayed if a vital task was dependent on the inputs of the absent person. The economic costs associated with absenteeism are high and significantly affect an organization’s profits. Absenteeism management is one of the most important strategic human resource management actions that a project-oriented organization can implement in order to ensure performance and success. This paper aims to systematically review the literature to explain absenteeism in more detail, as well as to present some of the strategies for managing absenteeism.","PeriodicalId":371624,"journal":{"name":"European Project Management Journal","volume":"330 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113986816","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}
Teklehaimanot Yemane, Jelena Mihajlović Milićević, Miloš Radenković
{"title":"Embedding the Principles and Practices of DevOps into the IT Education","authors":"Teklehaimanot Yemane, Jelena Mihajlović Milićević, Miloš Radenković","doi":"10.18485/epmj.2021.11.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/epmj.2021.11.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":371624,"journal":{"name":"European Project Management Journal","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115029735","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}
{"title":"Factors Constraining the Application of Lessons Learned on Construction Projects in Nigeria","authors":"B. Amade, Precious Keinpirima Iringe-Koko","doi":"10.18485/epmj.2019.9.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/epmj.2019.9.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"Lessons learned is a new form of creating knowledge while also sharing information amongst practitioners in the built environment. The aim of this study was to identify and evaluate the factors constraining lessons learned application in the delivery of construction projects in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. The study adopted a survey research design technique with the aid of a snow balling sampling technique. A sample size of 111 respondents was determined from a population of 200 made up of practitioners from the built industry. These samples were drawn from some construction firms located in the study area. The questionnaire for the survey was modeled using the Likert scale. Retrieved data were later presented via charts and figures, while Cronbach’s alpha coefficient tests and factor analysis were deployed in analyzing the main issues underlying the study via the IBM SPSS Statistics version 20. The findings from the study show that the constraints to lessons learned deployment could be grouped into six (6) constraints; the most important factor grouping being lack of comprehensive approach to lessons learned followed by lack of time, degeneration into blame sessions that becomes emotionally damaging, poor organizational culture, lack of willingness to share project faults caused by individual or group performance and finally lack of a lessons learned repository.","PeriodicalId":371624,"journal":{"name":"European Project Management Journal","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125346795","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}
Jelena Jovanovic, Marija Mosurović, Ivana M. Berić
{"title":"Risk as a Factor of Decision Making in Projects Financing of Infrastructure Projects","authors":"Jelena Jovanovic, Marija Mosurović, Ivana M. Berić","doi":"10.18485/epmj.2020.10.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18485/epmj.2020.10.2.2","url":null,"abstract":": Project financing have a significant role in the development of large infrastructure projects. The key thing when analyzing infrastructure projects is high-quality an assessment of potential risks which can more or less influence future monetary flows. With the aim of increasing infrastructure projects realization success rate and their rentability, as a prerequisite for making a decision about project financing, this paper presents some results of empirical research about infrastructure project key risk factors. Results indicate significant deviations from plans during infrastructure projects implementation, low level of practical use of project risk management techniques. The results can be of use to all participants in infrastructure projects (investors, public institutions, financial institutions, architecture companies, etc.) as well as company managers, project managers and risk managers. What infrastructure projects have in common is long duration and complexity in a technical, financial and legal sense, which causes a whole range of risks.","PeriodicalId":371624,"journal":{"name":"European Project Management Journal","volume":"222 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114854603","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}