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Chapter and Conference Paper
Standardization of Processes Applying CMMI Best Practices
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a set of practices that can be applied in companies in order to improve processes. The goal of this work was to understand the barriers in implementing CMMI and ...
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The Key Project Managers’ Competences for Different Types of Projects
This paper describes a quantitative research approach for identifying key project managers’ competences for different types of projects. By identifying the perceived most valuable project manager competences, ...
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An Application to Select Collaborative Project Management Software Tools
In an increasingly competitive market the use of project management techniques can help controlling scope, time, and cost in an efficient way. Either due to size or complexity that may exist in a project, it m...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
BeSmart2: A Multicriteria Decision Aid Application
This paper presents an improved version of an application whose goal is to provide a simple and intuitive way to use multicriteria decision methods in day-to-day decision problems. The application allows compa...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
OPM3® Portugal Project – Information Systems and Technologies Organizations – Outcome Analysis
Increasing the maturity in Project Management (PM) has become a goal for many organizations, leading them to adopt maturity models to assess the current state of its PM practices and compare them with the best...
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Concurrency Detection on Finish-to-Start Activity Precedence Networks
We explore the finish-to-start precedence relations of project activities used in scheduling problems. From these relations, we devise a method to identify groups of activities that could execute concurrently,...
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Project Management: Evaluation of the Problems in the Portuguese Construction Industry
During recent decades it has been possible to identify several problems in construction industry project management, related with to systematic failures in terms of fulfilling its schedule, cost and quality ta...
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A Multi-Criteria Decision Support System for a Routing Problem in Waste Collection
This work presents a decision support system for route planning of vehicles performing waste collection for recycling. We propose a prototype system that includes three modules: route optimization, waste gener...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Implementation of Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis Approaches in the Supplier Selection Process: A Case Study
Supplier evaluation and selection is recognized as a multiple criteria problem. Having considerable economic impact and influencing a competitive position of a buyer, supplier selection has been modelled by di...
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Multiple Case Study of the Supplier Selection Decision Process
The complex and important problem of the supplier selection has been modelled with the involvement and integration of different multiple criteria decision techniques. Nevertheless, there is little empirical ev...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Improving Project Management Practices in Architecture & Design Offices
This paper describes a study on improving project management (PM) practices in architecture & design offices, conducted through semi-structured interviews and focus group with professionals from seven differen...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Integration Between EVM and Risk Management: Proposal of an Automated Framework
The integration between Earned Value Management (EVM) and Project Risk Management immediately raises the question of the relationship between the two methods, even though EVM and project risk management share ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Knowledge Sharing in Industrialization Project Management Practices
Facing today’s complex and dynamic business environments,...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Development of a Grooming Process for an Agile Software Team in the Automotive Domain
At the current unpredictable technical evolution, the market is demanding an increasingly flexibility from companies to adapt to the pace of change in what customers want. The present research was developed in...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Development of an Interface for Managing and Monitoring Projects in an Automotive Company
In a competitive world, companies lose customers and opportunities due to lack of organisation, failure to meet deadlines, bad planning, among other reasons. Project management is presented as a form to guaran...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Project Management Practices at Portuguese Startups
Nowadays, due to the continuous changes in technology and markets, companies need to use the best project management practices to effectively manage their projects. The use of these practices however will not ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Improvement of Industrialization Projects Management: An Automotive Industry Case Study
Nowadays, in response to the technological evolution of the markets, organizations need to effectively improve their product development process. The product development can be seen as a global project where t...
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The Importance of Project Management Competences: A Case Study in Public Administration
Public administration is increasingly implementing new management practices borrowed from the private sector with the aim of improving quality service. Public funded projects have specific characteristics, nam...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Improving Project Management Practices in a Software Development Team
Software development projects continue to deliver results that fall short on organization’s expectations. The present research was carried out at InfoPortugal, a technological company specialized in Geographi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Capacity Management Tool for a Portfolio of Industrialization Projects
The management of a project portfolio is a complex decision process because it encompasses the achievement of multiple objectives. A critical point that increases the complexity in the decision-making process...
