Project Management Office (PMO): Using Projects as Strategies for Managing Organizational and Human Resources
A Project Management Office (PMO) is one entity that can be used to deliver products and services to internal and external customers by using projects and project management tools and techniques. This study aims to provide an account of how to use a ...
Olympic and Paralympic Games Project Structure and Governance: The Case of Olympic and Paralympic Games
The Olympic and Paralympic Games is a megaproject that involves huge investment and time effort from public and private entities to take place, which has been facing issues to find host candidate cities recently. This paper focus on the private side ...
Exploring Variety in Factors That Stimulate Project Owners to Address Sustainability
Concerns about sustainability drive organizations to assume responsibility for societal impacts. Reducing negative impacts requires organizational change. Given the ability of information technology/systems to optimize business processes, it is an ...
Mediating Role of Switch Leadership Between Dynamic Work Environment and Project Success
There is a limited research on the mediating role of the switch leadership style between the working environment and project success. Therefore, this study aims to examine the mediating role of switch leadership between the dynamic working ...
Examining the Critical Success Factors in IT Projects: A Two-Panel Delphi Study
Many companies experience IT project failures in relatively new areas such as Big Data, Data Science, Enterprise Systems, Blockchain, Cloud Computing, IT security, and IoT. Because of inadequate research in identifying critical success factors for ...
A Study of the Impact of Different Styles of Leadership on Project Quality Performance: An Empirical Analysis
Leadership is among the significant factors that affect project quality performance. There are different types of leadership styles . This paper examines the impact of different styles of leadership of project managers and how these styles affect ...
The Role of Building Information Modeling in Offsite Construction Projects
Offsite construction (OSC) and building information modeling (BIM) are two new and promising developments in the construction industry. However, few studies to date provide general empirical evidence for the role of BIM in OSC projects. Based on a ...
Achieving Strategic Alignment of Big Data Projects in Saudi Firms: The Role of Organizational Culture
Big data projects can fail due to the lack of alignment between the big data project strategy and the overall business strategy. This research considers organizational culture as an enabler of a better alignment between the two. To test the research ...
Heuristics' Library for Enterprise Architecture and Portfolio Alignment
It is a complex challenge to align and assess the strategic planning of organizations in the context of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) with the implementation of project portfolios. Thus, this research proposes a library of heuristics that allows ...
Use and Reuse of Collaboration and Communication Technologies in Projects
Use of technology and more recently reuse of technology have received a great deal of attention in Information Technology research. However, students’ use and reuse of technology have received little attention. The purpose of this research is to ...
Career Development of Project Management Professionals: Using Salaries as Extrinsic Rewards
The focus of this research is the perception of project management professionals as it relates to behaviors and attitudes for career opportunities that yield extrinsic rewards, including salaries. Career development activities, signaling theory, ...
IT Project Management Resource: Identifying Your Project's Common Goals
This study investigated the resource management plan as a group coordination strategy that encompasses the technology resources, the human IT resources, and the organizational resources, to accomplish a successful information system project. To obtain ...
Differentiated Management of IT Service Workers: Applying Segmentation Theory
This article examines how the widespread adoption of IT service management best practices challenges traditional approaches to managing IT workers. Via a multiple case study of servitized IT functions, it was found that IT service workers might be ...
How Bias Impacted the Project Manager Decision to Not Terminate a Failing Project
Almost half of projects have failed globally during the last 50 years yet most studies in the literature review were inclusive. The research design was a robust repeated measures controlled experiment where the 16 participants received all treatments, ...
A Study of Knowledge Transfer and Organizational Culture in Two Project-Intensive IT Organizations
Facilitating knowledge transfer in organizations has proven to be challenging, and one of the most prominent obstacles for successful knowledge transfer is the organization’s culture. Therefore, the core objective of this study was to investigate how ...
Exploring the Influence of Project Management Offices in Project-Based Organizations in Saudi Arabia
This research investigates the impact of the project management office functions on project success in Saudi Arabia. A comprehensive literature review is conducted to study different project management functions and project success measures. The data ...
Managing North-South Research Collaboration Projects During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Empirical Study
Researchers from the Global North and South have collaborated for decades to conduct cutting-edge interdisciplinary research. The tools they used to manage their research projects remained virtually unchanged until the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak early ...
What Should a Startup Know About Software Customization?
Due to the expansion of new markets, accessible technologies, and venture funding, software startup growth is amazing. Moreover, startups are frequently required to adapt their software products prior to deployment at a customer's location. The ...