The demands of the Mass Transit System like Metro and elevated train have increased rapidly even in developing countries from the viewpoints of environmental benefits and the counter measures against traffic jams. But the business is one of the difficult sectors by taking the huge amounts of the investment. By introducing the cases in Japan and Thailand, some types of the business, operation and finances are analyzed. Finally we realize that the PM in the sector is required to pay much attention on the comprehensive measures and approach especially including the financial views.

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This is a research on the risk identification in implementation phase of software development project. First, we identify risk items from pending lists that used in actual projects, viewpoints of workplace safety and health and analysis of worker's behavior. Next, we classify the cause of risk, the elements of project, the type of hazard by using a concept of "project is a machine, which makes a product". Finally, we propose the systematic way to identify risk items by using these classifications.

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Project management is a key methodology to which industry attracts considerable attention in corporate innovation. In such prospective fields as new business creation, product development and industrial complex, effective risk management is deemed to be imperative issue. The classical theory offers principally back-end approach to control risk in implementation stage. On the contrary, the new theory has developed front-end methodology to reduce occurrence of risk by delmition package rating. This paper deals with overviews and experiment on the latest theory.

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So far, decision-making proceeds to some methods like as AHP has been conducted empirically by project managers or engineers that have certain quantity of knowledge for each field. However engineering enterprises do not always store up the know-how that is necessary for the entry into a new business segment. This paper revolves around the cognitive-psychological modeling which reflects decision making process that is crucial element for the purpose of making up an aiding tool which shall be available when selection problem occurs in a new project.

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In this paper, specificationology, i.e. specification research is introduced. First, we have a glimpse of the structure that specificationology complements project management similarly to the case project management complements Cleanroom software development. Next returning to the fundamentals that requirements and specifications occur, we consider the background where we need specificationology. Considering the characteristics of three levels of technology (the world's three eras) based on the differences of their influences people affect the world technically, we recognize that we need specificationology in the era of information network. Then we define specificationology and show the range it applies. Also we show the three characteristics of specificationology and its relation to project management. Modern themes of various areas, themes in long range, and some considerations are also shown.

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A role of PM is very important at project promotion as System's Integration. For project promotion with planned QCD (Quality, Cost, Delivery),PM must have aptitude, strong will and high personal skill. This paper focus "human side to PM" and describes 1) How to check vocational aptitude of PM? 2) What is required personal skill as PM? 3) What PM must try to do?

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A solution of human resource allocation is discussed in multi-project execution. All of those project works can be defined as a product-based flow diagram according to the precedence of work packages. Taking a certain period of project execution time, multi-works in the product-based flow diagram can be performed by a super engineer who is a virtual engineer as an agent. Real engineers can be assigned to support the scope of works through the virtual engineer. This approach enables human resource to be adequately allocated not only to a single project but also to the multi-project.

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This paper examines the knowledge field of the project management as an object of Knowledge Management. There are two major problem areas: A. what kind of knowledge, information or data should be managed, and B. how the information should be notified to members and utilized effectively. To manage Project Management Knowledge effectively, firstly, Project Management Information Architecture is discussed. The architecture is created based on the examination of real software development project, which include problem solving of information/data sharing or re-use of them, data and process modeling of project management activities, and synthesizing all the ideas toward managing Project Management Knowledge. Then, based on experience of implementing the architecture, to generalize and enhance the effectiveness of the architecture, other knowledge of project management such as PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) and CMM (Capability Maturity Model) are investigated, which resulted in a new Project Management Knowledge model.

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The Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) decided to embark on a program in 1990 to promote the solar cell industry for solution of climate change and oil crisis. We evaluated four kinds of photovoltaic products, namely: single crystalline silicon; polycrystalline silicon; amorphous silicon and compound semiconductor from viewpoints of product cost, conversion efficiency, R&D cost, and reliability. And we analyzed project planning, schedule and organization.

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Because of serious deflation prevailing in Japan, college graduate is annoyed to look for chance of employment while expert faces lay-off problem. Two principal causes are deemed to be dominant that knowledgeable worker may not transfer from declining to growing industry. Executive manager is interested in neither serious creation of new business nor methodology while individual continues to keep learning attitude or to implicitly explain experience in life-time employment environment. Competence baseline is based on the discipline by which peoples reinforce and certify hidden capability explicitly. Project Management is interdisciplinary science by which technology, practice and vocational knowledge are integrated. Body of knowledge like PMI PMBOK is well known, but ICB is slightly recognized in Japan. This paper introduces ICB discipline and finally discusses the viewpoint of intellect integration in practical interdisciplinary science.

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Risk management plays a crucial role for software development to prevent vital defects and grasp the situation of the ongoing project beforehand to meet deadline and required quality. However, systems developers have a challenging issue to visualize the situation for outsiders who are not directly concerned. It is not the outsiders who first recognize the problems of the project but always its project leader. It is probable that this kind of situation will cause vital trouble like the delay of shipment. This report provides a method of simple risk-rating for outsiders to grasp the up-to-date situation of the projects by evaluating the project's risks regularly and figuring them. The approach also applied to an action plan for risk management. Likewise, the report shows that it is effective to compare and rate the various risk situations among projects for organizational risk management.

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EVMS (Earned Value Management System) is known as a powerful performance measurement tool to manage a project. It is good and clear at Cost management but something vague in Duration management. SPI (Schedule Performance Index) in EVMS is an index telling the achieved ratio against scheduled quantity. It doesn't say about Duration. For project management, the duration is one of the key success factor and also is a key risk management item that must be controlled. This Paper introduces DPI (Duration Performance Index), EDAC (Estimate Duration At Complete) and DV (Duration Variance) for project duration management. DPI is defined as SPI on the Critical Path of the project. EDAC is calculated by using DPI and it indicates the estimated duration required to complete the project. DV is the duration difference between Planed and Estimated. For duration contingency reserve, analogous to the management reserve in the cost management, Total Float and Free Float are identified as the network duration reserve. Overtime and Saturday, Sunday, National holidays are identified as costed duration reserve. Also additional assignment of the manpower is identified as costed duration reserve. To manage duration risks, DV is compared with these duration reserves.

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Earned Value is well known as a method for evaluating true performance of a project both in term of cost deviation and schedule deviation. This paper presents the implementation problems and also some improvement to overcome each of these problems.

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In order to build a mutually beneficial relationship with Asian countries in the long term, it is desirable to strengthen and support local subsidiary companies. This is why collaborations must be set up centered on local subsidiary company for research and development in conjunction with local universities and research institutions. It is also effective to have personnel exchange between Japanese companies and local research institutions for long-term research based on clear target. Potential exists in the following four areas for technical research and development collaborations with Asian countries. (1) Improve the efficacy of Asia as a global base for mass production; (2) Create new business that meets the needs of Asia; (3) Create environmentally friendly business; (4) Common and basic technologies that will support industrial activities.

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