Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Streamlining Digital Project Management, Marsha Miles

Michael Schwartz Library Publications

Presentation to the Ohio Digitization Interest Group on how Cleveland State University's Michael Schwartz Library streamlined digital project management using Microsoft SharePoint.

Plan Like An Architect: Adapting Architectural Programming For The Digital Project, Elizabeth Andrejasich Gibes

Elizabeth Andrejasich Gibes

No abstract provided.

Cultivating Team And Project Management: A Hybrid Mix, Rachel S. Evans, Karen Manning, Alexis D. Linoski, Sofia Slutskaya

Presentations

Managing project and team-based work within libraries can be challenging and often involves people from multiple departments performing crossfunctional tasks. Supporting collaborative efforts is a strategy that leads to improved productivity and successful outcomes. Join this session to learn informal approaches and collaborative techniques to work more efficiently and effectively among groups (cross-training, project management, team-building) and with tools such as Trello and KanbanFlow. These methods will help you connect with your peers for project and team success.

Critical Risk Assessment And Management In Pharmaceutical Industry, Abida Zameer

Dissertations and Theses

Background

Proper implementation of principles of project risk management is well known to minimize the impact of threats to any project. However, the determination of critical success factors which threat the success of pharmaceutical projects at baseline are usually uncertain.

Methods

Data was collected using self-administered structured questionnaire generated solely for the purpose of the current research. The questionnaire was administered via e-mail to professionals employed in the pharmaceutical industry located in Boston area using www.surveymonkey.com. The introduction and purpose of the questionnaire was described in the message accompanying the questionnaire.

Results:

Out of the 14 critical success factors listed …

Agile In Construction Projects, Chen Jin

Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

Project Manager Motivation: Job Motivators And Maintenance Factors, Thomas G. Henkel, James W. Marion Jr, Debra T. Bourdeau

Publications

The present study explored the applicable motivation factors that contribute to job satisfactory in terms of job motivators and maintenance factors when working projects. Students enrolled in a university advanced project management leadership course were asked to respond to a job motivators and maintenance factors self-assessment which is a useful framework to determine the factors that contribute to their motivation when working projects (Lusser & Achua, 2016). A chi-square test was conducted to determine if the observed values were significantly different from an expected value of 18. The chi-square goodness of fit test led to the rejection of H10 and …

Project Manager Leadership Styles: Task Vs. People-Oriented, Thomas G. Henkel, James W. Marion Jr, Debra T. Bourdeau

Publications

The present study explored applicable leadership behavior in terms of concern for task and/or people-oriented when leading project teams. Students enrolled in a university Master of Science in Project Management degree program were asked to respond to the Fielder Leadership Style Self-Assessment which is a useful framework to determine task versus people-oriented leadership (Lusser & Achua, 2016). A chi-square test was conducted to determine if the observed values were significantly different from an expected value of five. With a p value

A Profile Of Project Manager Work Engagement: A Field Survey, Thomas G. Henkel, James W. Marion Jr, Debra T. Bourdeau

Publications

Engaged employees are those who are involved in, enthusiastic about, and committed to their work and who are most likely to drive innovation, generate new ideas, have a sense of connection with their work activities, and are involved with the demands of their job (Gallup, 2013). Nowhere is the concept of employee engagement more important than with managing an organization’s projects. Ensuring a project manager is emotionally engaged with his or her work is crucial for project success to meet greater challenges in today's 21st-century global marketplace. In this research study, project managers were asked to respond to an employee …

Sink Or Swim: How To Survive Drowning In A Sea Of Projects Using Asana As Your Life Saver, Keri Baker, Jaime Goldman

Keri Baker

Are you drowning and struggling to stay afloat while navigating all of the moving pieces in a sea of projects? Asana can help you go from sinking to swimming! Asana is a web-based project management tool that the NSU Oceanographic Campus Library has adopted in order to manage the library more effectively. Asana creates task-based projects that hold project teammates accountable for their work, minimizes email, and streamlines meetings. Learn what Asana is, the various ways to use it, and how the Oceanographic Campus Library is changing the way they do business.

Sink Or Swim: How To Survive Drowning In A Sea Of Projects Using Asana As Your Life Saver, Keri Baker, Jaime Goldman

Staff Presentations, Proceedings, Lectures, and Symposia

Are you drowning and struggling to stay afloat while navigating all of the moving pieces in a sea of projects? Asana can help you go from sinking to swimming! Asana is a web-based project management tool that the NSU Oceanographic Campus Library has adopted in order to manage the library more effectively. Asana creates task-based projects that hold project teammates accountable for their work, minimizes email, and streamlines meetings. Learn what Asana is, the various ways to use it, and how the Oceanographic Campus Library is changing the way they do business.

Digitize Your To-Do List, Rachel S. Evans

Presentations

This lightning talk will revolve around the Kanban method as a successful project management method. KanbanFlow.com will be introduced as a user-friendly tool for implementing Kanban in the workplace to improve performance outcomes and deal with shifting and measuring priorities. A comparison will be made of digital versus paper to-do lists for librarians and library staff. Features of this free web-based application will be covered including: collaboration between team members, Pomodoro time-tracking, dates and deadlines, recurring tasks, sub-tasks, and digital board customization.

Strategies To Manage Enterprise Information Technology Projects, Mario West

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Since 2005, most midsize company information technology (IT) projects had a 62.4% failure rate because of wrong project team communication skills or cost overruns. IT leaders expect negative IT project outcomes will cost over $2 billion by 2020. Using the actor-network theory, the purpose of this single case study was to explore strategies used by IT leaders from a midsize IT company in Washington, D.C. to plan and execute projects under budget and on time. Using purposeful sampling, 5 IT leaders were selected for this study because of their experience in implementing successful strategies for projects. Data were collected using …

Digital Collections Lecture, Shawn Martin

Shawn Martin