We investigate the group processes involved in effort estimation in the context of Project Management. The groups considered are formed by "experts" (people with specific technical competence) and "non-experts"¬ù (people with less specific technical competence, usually experts in related...

The field of Project Management has become increasingly important lately. Nowadays there are different types of educational programs which promise providing the necessary knowledge to those interested in joining the large world of business. If you want to be a certified project manager, you must...

Traditional cost contingency estimation relies heavily on expert judgment based on various cost-engineering standards. This paper compares project stages, accuracy ranges, and cost contingencies recommended by the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International and the Electric...

Project risks have never been so present. First, projects are dealing with bigger stakes and facing stronger constraints. Moreover, projects must cope with an ever-growing complexity. Risks have then increased in number and criticality. Lists of identified project risks thus need to be...

Grant project management is now a trend in the institutions of various types in Romania due to the opportunities offered by the EU through structural Instruments. Absorbing European funds is a challenge for Romania. The Managing Authority for Structural Instruments, together with the...

Starting from “the mutations” that are likely to appear inside the project in the context of the information – based economy, society, organization and management, there has been achieved a research at the national level since the main goal consisted in observing, on the one hand, the...

There are already a few years since we heard about Web 2.0. There was a real frenzy around this new concept. In short time new terms have emerged related to Web 2.0 like Government 2.0, Research 2.0, e-Science 2.0 and Project Management 2.0. This paper aims to focus on the challenges of project...

Research entities can achieve sustainable competitive advantages, exercised by strategic operational management of their human resources. But conditions are still unclear: how employees of an eligible research entity can benefit from a strategic human resource management (SHRM) so that they make...

The economic, political, social, cultural, technological, etc. changes the XXI-st century is facing trigger modifications at the level of the economy, society, organization and of the management of this one. Such transformations result in the appearance of new trends at the international level,...