As an important project type of Agile Software Development, the performance evaluation and prediction for eXtreme Programming project has significant meanings. Targeting on the short release life cycle and concurrent multitask features, a statistical earned value analysis model is proposed....

Success factors have been extensively studied in the field of project management. The PIP (Project Implementation Profile), designed by Pinto & Slevin, is often used as an assessment method enabling project managers to identify critical success factors either at the beginning or at the end of...

Ethics, like in any other rule of an organization, is very important inside a project, and it has to be complied with all the rules, percepts and standards which are in force. Discrimination and harassment are serious breakdowns of the ethics laws and therefore is has to fight by all means...

In this paper, we address the issue of optimal selection of portfolio of projects using reinvestment strategy within a flexible time horizon. We assume that an investor intends to invest his/her initial capital on the implementation of some projects in a flexible time horizon. The investor’s...

The global market is a challenge for Croatian companies because the current business paradigm applied in the domestic market can hardly be applied globally. Faced with changing customer demand and increased competition, companies in the manufacturing sector have continued to question the...

Lyme disease is a worldwide zoonotic disease and the most common tick-borne illness in Europe and North America. It is caused by at least three species of bacteria belonging to the genus Borrelia (Borrelia afzelii and Borrelia garinii cause most European cases, whereas Borrelia burgdorferi - is...

During the last two decades, projects have become increasingly important and recognizable tools for achieving competitiveness, strategic aims and much needed positive changes. The consequence of this, among other things, is the growing number of projects which emerge and are carried out in all...

Using Information Technologies in organizations represents an evident progress for company, money economy, time economy and generates value for the organization. In this paper the author proposes to model the business processes for an organization that manages projects costs, because modelling...

Project Management has come of age, yet multiple surveys and reports confirm the fact that the majority of projects are challenged. Given the more demanding and strict financial constraints associated with the current fiscal climate, project management is regarded as a tool that can deliver more...

One of the greatest challenges in managing product development projects is identifying an appropriate sequence of many coupled activities. The current study presents an effective approach for determining the activity sequence with minimum total feedback time in a design structure matrix (DSM)....