PROJECT MANAGEMENT - CHALLENGES AND RESEARCH RESULTS

The demand for professional expertise in project management is constantly increasing due to the progressive complication of environmental processes and the functioning of organizations of all kinds as well as arising problems through projects' execution. To meet this demand, project management is intensively developed from both the practical and scientific side. As a result, project management has become a separate field of practical and scientific knowledge which has a separate subject of study, its own theoretical foundations, using specific research methods. The development of project management is done by specialized academic centers, research institutes, professional associations, consulting firms and individual professionals. The Department of Project Management at the Warsaw School of Economics is one of the leading centers of scientific and practical project management in Poland.

The issues described in this publication cover a wide spectrum of current challenges and problems in project management. The purpose of this publication is to present the research achievements of Department and people co-operating with it in both national and - above all - international environment of specialists in project management.

Monograph Project Management - Challenges and Research Results should be considered a valuable position on the publishing market, addressing a successful attempt to describe the problems of project management from the perspective of the challenges faced by modern organizations' managers. It is a mature and innovative work of important cognitive and theorygenic values, expressing

in a comprehensive manner the issue of project management. Problems discussed in the monograph can be clearly attributed to the mainstream discussion in the management sciences, as well as they are the focal point of interest in economic practice.

The work as a whole is an extremely interesting elaboration, engaging the reader and motivating

to ask questions about the construction of project management systems. The monograph should be of interest to scientists conducting research in the project management area, economics students, but also, and perhaps above all, management practitioners, who through this study will receive a set of rules and guidelines relating to optimum project management systems' improvement ways. [...]

[A part of Full Professor Szymon Cyfert's review]

Introduction

Michał Trocki

The Issues of Project Management in Warsaw School of Economics

1.1. Project Management History in Warsaw School of Economics

1.2. Research Issues Taken by the Staff of the Department of Project Management

1.3. Scientific Development

1.4. Publishing Activity of the Department of Project Management

1.5. Educational Activity of Employees of the Department of Project Management

1.6. Presentation of the Employees and Associates of the Department of Project Management

Bartosz Grucza

Project Stakeholder Analysis Models

2.1. Aim of the Study

2.2. Concept of Stakeholders

2.3. Stakeholder Management Process

2.4. Overview of Stakeholder Analysis Models

2.4.1. Model AA1000

2.4.2. Australian Government Model

2.4.3. Model Stakeholder Research Associates, UNEP, Accountability

2.5. Conclusions from the Discussed Stakeholder Analysis Models

2.6. Bibliography

Mateusz Juchniewicz

Achieving Excellence in the Implementation of Projects Using Project Management Maturity Models

3.1. Definition and Development of Organization's Maturity

3.2. History of Maturity Concept

3.3. Project Management Maturity Models

3.3.1. The Kerzner Project Management Maturity Model (PMMM)

3.3.2. Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)

3.3.3. Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3)

3.3.4. Portfolio, Programme and Project Management Maturity Model (P3M3)

3.4. Research on Organization's Project Management Maturity - General Model

3.5. Maturity of the Organization Compared to Other Concepts of Organizational Improvement, Development Perspectives

3.6. The Application of Project Maturity Assessment in Management

3.7. The Results of Research on the Project Management Maturity Throughout the World and in Poland

3.7.1. Research in the World

3.7.2. The Results of Research in Poland

3.8. Conclusions

3.9. Bibliography

Michał Trocki

Designing Project Organization

4.1. The Problem of Project Organization

4.2. Requirements and Conditions of Project Organization

4.3. Model Solutions for Project Organization

4.4. Process of Project Organization Design

4.5. Bibliography

Paweł Wyrozębski

Risk and Uncertainty in Project Planning Process

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Strategy and Research Model

5.3. Characteristics of the Research Sample

5.4. Scale Reliability Analysis

5.5. Development of Risk and Uncertainty Index, RUI

5.6. Results and Discussion

5.7. Conclusions

5.8. Bibliography

Emil Bukłaha

Operational Project Controlling - Results of the Study

6.1. Introduction - Description of the Aim of the Study

6.2. Definition and Genesis of Project Controlling

6.3. Types of Project Controlling

6.4. Operational Project Controlling in Polish Organizations

6.4.1. Research Sample

6.4.2. Research Methods and Research Model

6.4.3. Research Results Within the Scope of the Current Project Controlling in Organizations Operating in Poland

6.5. Conclusions

6.6. Bibliography

Ewa Sońta-Drączkowska

Problems of Knowledge Management in Project Organizations on the Example of Professional Service Companies

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Concept Definitions

7.3. Consulting Project Life-Cycle

7.4. Knowledge Management Strategies Depending on the Type of Professional Service Company

7.5. Diagnosis of Knowledge Management System Model - a Case Study on the Example of Professional Service Firm

7.6. Challenges for the Area of Knowledge Management in a Professional Service Company

7.7. Conclusions and Directions for Future Development

7.8. Bibliography

Witalij Metelski

Researches in the Field of Human Resources Management in Projects in Poland

8.1. Introduction

8.2. General Characteristics of Human Resources Management

8.3. Human Resources Management in Project Oriented Organizations

8.4. Selected Researches in the Area of Human Resources Management

8.5. Research Results

8.6. Bibliography

Katarzyna Kandefer-Winter

Communication in Project Management

9.1. Introduction

9.2. Communication in Project Management

9.3. Communication and the Success or Failure of Projects

9.4. Project Maturity in Communication Management

9.5. Research Model

9.6. Information on Research and Research Sample

9.7. Significance of Communication in Project Management

9.8. Used Support in the Area of Project Communication

9.8.1. Profile of Support in the Field of Communication and the Respondent's Experience

9.8.2. Profile of Support in the Area of Communication and the Level of Intensity of the Projects in the Activities of the Organizational Unit

9.8.3. Profile of Support in the Area of Communication and the Average Duration of Projects and the Number of People in the Project Team

9.8.4. Profile of Support and Other Explanatory Variables

9.8.5. Relationships Between the Areas of Project Communication Support

9.9. Conclusions

9.10. Bibliography

Krzysztof Wąsowski

Public-Private Partnership in Poland - Analysis of the First Projects Implemented in Poland from the Project Perspective

10.1. Public-Private Partnership - Project Perspective

10.2. Goals, Scope and Used Research Method

10.3. Research Results

10.4. Final Conclusions, Research Limitations and Potential Directions for Future Research

10.5. Bibliography