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...ling and monitoring step as it affects the rest of the project process and it is the most crucial step from a Lean perspective. For this reason more atte ...essfully. This means that more than one out to three projects fails. Also, it seems to be evident that the longer the project and the team size, the hard

... task if not managed properly. In the context of '''project management''', it refers to any significant alteration in an organisation that affects the wa ...e point of view of organisations. To understand what change management is, it is necessary to understand what a change is. This definition will be furthe

Agile can be traced back to 1991 where agile manufacturing was introduced. It was however not before ”''The Agile Manifesto''” was introduced, that t ...ering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. We value:

...anced/> <ref name=recall> [''Terry Hill and Roy Westbrook - SWOT Analysis: It's Time for a Product Recall''] ''Long Range Planning, Vol. 30, No.1, pp. 46

...sible to get an overview of where team members are assigned optimal roles. It sheds light on whether each team need specific roles to solve a given task ...m to achieve a high performance team (Tuckman 2000). When building a team, it is important that there is a framework for creating a high-performance team

... is also one of the major sub-processes of the pre-project planning, since it contributes to the project performances in terms of costs, schedule and qua Meeting the customer's expectations is key to any project success, since it means meeting performance, functional and technical requirements. Besides,

...ltaneously. The risk register is an efficient risk documentation tool when it is used correctly within project management. ...sk register is the tool that should be constantly updated and referred to; it is the centre of all processes and decisions.

...to end up a project successfully and deliver it on time and within budget, it is important to get an overview of the risks, which is associated to the pr ... we shall use the term, is so far different from an un-measurable one that it is not in effect an uncertainty at all" [Ariane Chapelle].

...if the business is in a situation where there's a new competitor emerging, it will often be a good idea for the company to perform a SWOT, to optimize th ...ork for future strategic initiatives and process improvement plans. Hence, it will as well be a good idea for a small business to involve as many stakeho

...QFD)] is a systems design method which focuses on the needs of the client. It assists the development team during the design stage of a system, a process ...on in the portfolio of an organization is an interesting approach, however it has not been used extensively yet. This results in a limited literature reg

...ed has become very popular. When embracing your failures the ideal is that it is possible to learn from your failures and have better justification for y ...al Model will serve as an example of implementing Embracing Failure, while it will be kept in mind that this is not definitive and cannot serve as the pr

...ports and provides the basis for customization to a specific need. Finally it is described how the different A3 reports can be used as tools for solving ... </ref> Even though the tool origins and is widely used in manufacturing, it has been applied successfully in a range of industries such as healthcare,

...ver, project risk management is only effective to a limited extent because it lacks a portfolio wide view. <ref name="Contingency">Teller, Kock & Gemünd ... and their management, they will eventually impact project portfolios too. It has been shown that market and technology turbulence, and external dynamics

...purpose or the process of the project. To create a motivational atmosphere it is also important to focus on communication and on involving the volunteers ...iesing and R. Dale Safrit, Research in Brief, volume 45, June 2007 </ref> It is therefore interesting to study volunteering organisations with growth to

...g paradigms, and gave the confidence that everybody could be creative, and it was not just a divine talent. This inspired creativity to be something not ...cognition by the industry, as the market became more complex and changing, it required a new way of thinking<ref> Amabile, Teresa M., Blackwell Encyclope

...ient enough to sustain unexpected drawbacks when exploring new paths. Thus it can be concluded that risk is incorporated in the DNA of any project, progr ]]It is basically inevitable not to associate risk and uncertainty to any human

... novelty with a fixed deadline'''. The important factors of Scrum are that it depends on three main roles the '''Product Owner''' that has the responsibi ...herland was the one to apply the concept and tweak it for then introducing it together with Ken Schwaber at the OOPSLA 1995 conference.

... to start with it is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; after time… it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure.” (Machiavelli, 1514) <ref ...nal factors. If an unexpected event turns out to be harmful to the project it is in general terms considered to be a risk.

...t aside our daily routines and use our time and energy to learn new tasks, it may affect all players’ adaptation process. This means that agents will e ...s difficulties to accomplish their business goals, benefits and strategy. It happens that due to globalization, many companies manage several projects i

“It is worth noting that neither the CCPM nor the FHWA approach mentions techni ...but if the issues of context and financing have an insignificant magnitude it would not be complex. An example of such a complicated but 'non-complex' pr