derhan/semantic-scholar-manajemen-proyek huggingface dataset:
The Impact of Economic Fluctuations on Project Management Practices in Large-Scale Construction Projects
Authors: Wasif Ali Khan
Year: 2024

This study investigates the influence of economic changes on management practices in Pakistan, focusing on key areas, including budgeting, cost management, monitoring, project planning, resource allocation, procurement, and risk management. Surveys were conducted to obtain data from 150 project managers in various sectors in Karachi. The results suggest that economic changes substantially impact management's decision-making process in Pakistan's firms. Managers respond to economic instability by implementing adaptive actions such as modifying budgets, strengthening cost controls, improving monitoring systems, revising project plans, reallocating resources, refining procurement methods, and strengthening risk management frameworks. These insights suggest that organizational resilience can be improved by implementing better planning, enhancing risk management practices, optimizing budgeting and cost management, strengthening monitoring and control mechanisms, refining resource allocation and procurement strategies, and fostering organizational agility.
Global vs. local — Experiences from a distributed software project course using agile methodologies
Authors: Outi Sievi-Korte; Kari Systä; R. Hjelsvold
Year: 2015

Global software engineering (GSE) has become common in the software industry. Distributed development work comes with many challenges, especially related to communication and coordination. Thus, it is essential to also teach and prepare the new population of software engineers to be aware of - and familiar with - these hurdles. We addressed this need by arranging a joint (agile) software project course between universities in Finland and Norway. We had three teams - one with students from both countries and two with students from the Norwegian university only. The students were given a teacher mentor, a handbook on agile practices and state-of-the-art tools for project management and software development. Apart from monitoring the teams' progress, we also collected data from emails, questionnaires, student reports and interviews during and after the project. The main lesson learned is that the global and local teams are mostly facing the same challenges - especially when it comes to team building, clear project roles, and communication and management issues. Ultimately, our results show that the challenges were harder to solve by the global team and that not solving challenges in a timely manner had more serious consequences.
Opening the lines of communications with open source software
Authors: L. Fox; Shawn M. Plummer
Year: 2006

SUNY Geneseo's original commercial helpdesk software was purchased and implemented nearly ten years ago. The drawbacks of managing a large software installation (high annual maintenance costs, complex administration needs that could not be met with current staffing levels, and prohibitive expansion costs) led to our exploration of a new helpdesk solution for the campus.We selected to implement open source helpdesk software. This decision has benefits beyond financial ones. Our customers now have self-service capabilities allowing them to create, view, and respond to their own issues. Customers are automatically notified via e-mail when a new ticket is entered on their behalf and when that issue has been resolved. We also expanded the software to other areas of our IT department for project management and internal problem tracking.The flexibility of the solution we implemented allows us to work towards changing many of our paper based, poorly tracked processes to be far more transparent and easy to maintain and monitor.We will discuss the impact of an open helpdesk system from management, technical, and customer perspectives, talk about the trials, tribulations, and hurdles we had to overcome along the way, and give a live demonstration of our implementation.
Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation and Sustainability of Community Development Projects in Kitui West Constituency, Kenya
Authors: Veronicah Zakayo; Paul Sang
Year: 2024

There are significant challenges faced by project managers in Kitui west constituency when it comes to implementing sustainable projects, in particular, the Community Level Infrastructure Development Program was aimed at promoting equitable development across the entire constituency through implementing small scale infrastructure projects. However, there was a partial or no realization of the envisaged benefits. The aim of this study was therefore be to assess the impact on sustainability for Community Development Projects in Kitui West Constituency, Kenya from Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation. The study was based on theory of sustainability, the ladder of participation, stakeholder theory, modern organizational theory and real assessment theory. Research was conducted using a descriptive design for this study. 10 projects that have been operational within 2016 - 2021 was the target population of this study. The researcher targeted 87 respondents comprising of 20 project management committee and 67 constituency development committee members. The study conducted a census of 87 respondents. The study sample size was 10 projects with 87 respondents. For the purpose of collecting data in this study, a questionnaire was used. The study tested the instruments in Kitui central constituency involving 8 respondents. Research instruments were assessed for content, face, and criterion validity. Reliability was measured using Cronbach’s alpha. Data analysis involved descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (correlation, regression). Results, shown in tables and figures, indicated that community engagement, capacity building, resource use, and communication positively impacted project sustainability. The study concludes that involving community members in project planning, implementation, and evaluation fosters ownership and empowerment. The study recommends that the constituency should involve community members in the planning and decision-making processes is crucial which can be achieved through community meetings, workshops, and focus group discussions where residents can voice their needs, priorities, and ideas.