This paper deals with the relation between member's personality and effective leadership. The experiment was conducted to 41 subjects and their evaluation score were analyzed by factors analysis. As a result, PM type leader got high evaluation score from all subjects. It was suggested that M (group maintaining) type leader is effective for prudent members, and P (purpose accomplish) type leader is effective for active members.

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Leadership is one of the important elements for project managers to promote project. In PMBOK, it is quoted from Mr. Kotter's thesis that the Leadership should include "establishing policy direction", "shepherding members", and "motivating and inspiring members". On the other hand, in armed forces, leadership is shown by commanding officers."Commanding" means controlling subordinate units, and therefore, sense of responsibility and example by leadership are required for commanding officers. In this thesis, similarities and differences between SI project leadership and armed forces leadership are shown, pointing out what SI project managers should take into themselves.

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This article describes about the necessity of dividing a manager's role, and a leader's role among two or more administrators. In a certain software development project, work which was not proceeding further, went smoothly, when three administrators shared these roles. As a result of analyzing the success factors of this project by object-oriented analysis of role assignment and communication, it was found that the presence of two or more administrators changes the flow of communication between project members, such as SE and programmer. This has a good effect on development work.

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Nowadays, in letters and "PMI Today", which is a supplement to"PM Network", sent from PMI, PMBOK is said to be De facto Standard or Global Standard. Looking back, this makes me remind the history of IT system. It's a history of the Standardized Operating system and the infrastructure of IT system. Therefore, when we investigate the history of IT, we would be able to predict the future of Project Management. According to this idea, in this paper, I considered the infrastructure of Project Management knowledge in comparison with IT system. Consequently I noticed that Project Management has some layers and each layer has a certain role and function as in IT system. Through understanding of the infrastructure, we can definitely recognize the position of PMBOK as the foundation and the entire Project Management knowledge structure.

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In project development, we often tend to lose sight of the whole scope and ask everything to the project leader, especially when the size of the project becomes larger. If the project is proceeding as planned, we need not to worr, but once it starts to delay, it is hard to find out root causes of the problem. With the increase of development members, we have to handle a lot of deliverables, which we may sometimes fail to judge whether they are really necessary. Especially, deliverables of upper phases are not so standardized and visible as those of lower phases like programs and test cases, so that it becomes harder to manage works of upper phases. Moreover, in upper phases, even though any schedule delay occurs, we sometimes fail even to recognize it and proceed to lower phases with no counter actions; consequently, we finally find that we have a lot of unsettled factors, and have to start over in some cases, which may lead to serious delay of the entire project. In this paper, I will introduce the methodology to make the schedule management successful by clearly defining each work using DFD method.

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In this paper, I would like to describe the process I have been practicing to promote Function Point Analysis within our company, and how I collected the actual productivity data from the projects which I analysis and utilized in turn helping the projects to do their estimations using Function Point Analysis.

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This paper introduces a case of Business Application System Development Project, which, for the first time in our country, supports new market access business, enabled by the bill having passed the Diet on this June 22. Because it is 'new market access business', it is hard to make application requirements clear. Furthermore, the bill had been suspended several times; we had to face a need for revision of those application requirements at every suspension of the bill. Under those circumstances, we were enforced to repeat 'service-in' several times; accordingly, we developed a schedule of multiple systems development executed concurrently. In this paper, I would like to evaluate the outcome of the unprecedented project management, including processes of change management and version control of modules under the schedule of multiple systems development executed concurrently. Future issues observed are also reported.

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This paper is new in the respect where we take fault correction-effort into account explicitly in our model. In fact, researches so far have assumed to expend testing-effort only in detecting faults latent in the software system in their models or neglect the effort to correct faults. Therefore, it is more reasonable to propose a model to expend testing-effort both in detecting and correcting faults. In this paper we formulate our model by applying a testing-effort dependent software reliability growth model and develop and efficient algorithm for it.

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In the software development project, it is very important to perform works based on methodology. If we start working without methodology, we will be unable to make effective project plans, which may lead to failure in project management itself. We will also face the same problem of software development in the project pursuing newly creative objectives. In this paper, I clarified wants and needs in building methodology by categorizing them to what is necessary, what is better to have, and what is related to quality. I also reported a case of methodology development with those factors incorporated.

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The project manager is responsible for managing the project and to assure that the project is on schedule. The project manager himself is a valuable resource to the project and hence it should be properly utilized. Classical ways to determine the workload applied to the project manager included, (1) the duration and size of the project and/or, (2)past experiences. Often, the result of the estimation is human-dependent and biased. In this paper, we use the Management-pyramid model to show how the management workload is related to the communication line theory, and show a comprehensive and unbiased way to make a quick estimate on it.

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The environment surrounding e-business is showing numerous changes in these years, and methods flexible enough to cope with such changes are required for recent application developments. Under such situation, methodologies based on iterative development, which repeats a short-term release adding features, replacing the conventional waterfall development model, are now being proposed. But from a system integrator's standpoint, many problems seem to be left unsettled, for instance, possibility of applying the methodology to large scale development and scheme for organizational support on projects. In this paper, I would like to examine the requirements that methodologies used in e-business application developments should fulfill.

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The industrial triangular plan and new product industry vision of Chiba prefecture have been decided by Chiba prefecture government in order to realize the activation of the industry integration in Chiba prefecture. The industrial triangular plan carried out from 1983. On the other hand, the new product industry vision carried out from 1994. In this paper, establishment of the support organization for medical-welfare industry is suggested in order to realize the new product industry creation in Chiba prefecture.

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By citing a successful R&D project as an example, the significance of the government supporting program is briefly outlined from the view point of encouraging small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) to their accomplishment of R&D projects. For SMEs which are not furnished with sufficient operating resources, taking full advantage of the government supporting program is quite effective to put R&D projects into practice. Such programs as the technology transfer run by the Japan Technomart Foundation, and the financial support and the technical consultation run by the prefectural government are recommended to be fully incorporated in the R&D project.

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The Agency of Industrial Science and Technology ceased its role and the new organization "National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology" was born at the beginning of April 2001. The change in the role of the former AIST is reviewed and the outline and R&Ds of new AIST is shown.

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Most of the projects introducing ERP package software set their goals in business process reengineering and cost-savings, using standard business models offered by those packages. In fact, there are many projects that have achieved their goals successfully, but on the hand, there are many stuck projects that have faced difficulties in persuading clients and saving development costs. In project management, understand merits and key points of ERP package software is the key success. In this paper I will describe the key problems and countermeasures for leading projects introducing ERP package software to the success.

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The point : As for Sier, various projects of information system are composed. System development business or business related to the maintenance is carried out, and, a status of each project and a performance are grasped. And, when there is a subject in the applicable project, we turn PDCA to say with so-called TQM which does a suitable countermeasure. This paper reports the research, with the aim of sharing of the development information which is achieved by project visualization.

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Our company did the spin-out from Mitsubishi Electric Corp in April, 2001 for the purpose of the improvement in service to the customer by quick action is carried out, it should correspond to the system integration business which changes quickly. In project management of a system integration, in addition to management of Quality (Q), Cost (C), and Delivery (D), Modern Projects Managements (MPM), such as risk management, are introduced, and the quality system is offered to the customer. In this report, the project management support system according to MPM and the example applied to about 600 projects a total are introduced.

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Recently. It is general that developing Information System to use ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Package. The author managed two project to develop information system using ERP Package and these system went to live successfully. In this paper, I will define risks these are different from those of legacy method projects. And from the view of Phasing approach, give the consideration of Phasing. The role of Project Manager using ERP Package Project is different from the Project not using ERP Package. I will explain the difference specifically.

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It was introduced many times by Ohmori's technical speech in past that the "Quality System Management" international standards as ISO-9000s (1987) were specified on base of MIL-Q-9858 (1963) (American Military Specification) as the root and in the current flows through BS-5750 (British standard) and EN-29000 (European Normative standard). However this MIL-Q-9858 was canceled applying for American Military Purchase Contracts few years ago and superseded for ISO-9001s (2000) in nowadays and the topic news were informed already for the broad area of the world. This time, I wish to have my presentation that the global movements for "Software Quality Management", which root was said as MIL-Q-9858 (1963) also and developed in several DOD's publication system flows, are superseding to the International Standards, such as ISO/IEC, IEEE/EIA and EIA standards etc, .

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Recent trends in business are focused on (1) the International division of work derived from Globalization of Business, (2) the Speeding up of Business with "IT" (Information Technology). The three motivations are considered for companies' R&D projects such as a) the contribution for the development of human beings civilization, b) the improvements of competitiveness in the market and gaining the profit, c) Establishment of R&D superiority under the international division of work. R&D process is the appropriate work for advanced countries, because R&D process requires the highest level of technologies. Furthermore, for establishing the superiority in business, the business barriers are built as i) the barrier of the Patents, ii) the barrier of the Technology, iii) the barrier of the Price, iv) the barrier of the Regulations.

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One of the most important things of software development project is quality in the Upper Phase, which will appear in the deliverable. We can recognize there is one factor, project's quality improvement, to make Application Development Project achievement. Therefore, I'd like to consider whether Notes Database, one of the Project's Quality System, is effective tool or not, based upon the large project, over 150 project members, used Notes Forum Database as one of the project's quality improvement tools.

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This is one example of Project Management for IBM Notebook PC, ThinkPad development. As ThinkPad is a worldwide product, it is mandatory to work with US team for not only development but also announcement, manufacturing, fulfillment, marketing and service. There are differences of product requirements among countries / areas and a request for specification change often happens. Since CPU and Operating System plan changes several times, development team is requested to have a flexibility to adapt the plan change. Author also adds consideration for Project Management, when our working environment change like, work at Home or shortened working hour, occurs in future.

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The inner process which is supposed to realize the physiological and psychological processing of a project engineer influences the progress of intellectual work profoundly. Thus, we construct the inner process model of a project engineer and explain the reason why a schedule delay arises in the intellectual work on the basis of this developed model.

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As a Project Management in executing a project, it consists of four main parts "Progress Control", "Problem Control", "Change Control" and "Risk Management". I made the presentation of the basic concepts and methodology by using PMIS(Project Management Information System)named CPMT(Consolidated Project Management Tools)created by me about Project Management as "Effective Project Management Methodologies by using Group ware in IT Projects" at SPM2000 Spring Conference. As the successions of it, I made the presentation titled "Effective Project Management about Problem Control in IT Projects" at SPM2000 Fall Conference and "Effective Project Management about Change Control in IT Projects" at SPM2001 Spring Conference. And much more about Project Management at SPM2001 Fall Conference, I'll talk about "Progress Control" titled "Effective Time and Cost Management by using EV Analysis in IT Projects". I hope and it's my pleasure if it could be helpful for new project managers in IT Projects all over the world.

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Until now there has been a need to create the more creative and co-operative thinking and working place among the science/engineering and the manager/accounting people within the organization of companies and government offices by using terminology specific to each group or using a standard form. However there is nothing written to fill this need. The purpose of this paper is to fill this need. The idea of this paper fills this need by using the thinking and form of "New Project Management Method(DTCN/DTC Method)", developed by Prof. Esaki, while the conventional project management that begins with the WBS and the Gantto chart, the idea of this paper can be used from the upper stream project management more than the conventions and accounting process(Market Creation Project Planning, Project Planning Process)to the final evaluation of the results and forward feed process.

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It is introduced about the case study to the information system development, maintenance and operation section of the ISO9001 quality system in NTT DATA corporation. And, as for the details of those activities and the present condition as well, it is introduced.

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Quality assurance is one of the highest priority subjects on application system development projects. As the scale of system development grows larger, it rises higher, the degree of the difficulty of the quality assurance on its application system. And plus, if the development period is required to shorten, its degree of the difficulty rises even higher. In our real project of the practical application system development, we a chieved both aspects shortening development period and the quality assurance by performing the following countermeasure, load balancing for development engineers by the concurrent development of sub system, sharing a part of development work with client/user, reviewing specifications and corresponding user's requests of improvement as a basis.

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The specific objective of this paper is to verify the impact of education effects in field of project management to train the both creation and system integration capability through the case study. The research and development(R & D)project for the factory of the future using network technology has been introduced to train the creation and integration capabilities of the students. As the results, the students can learn both the techniques of a project planning and a project execution through the project management education including the case study. Furthermore, it will also show that the students learn communication and problem solving capabilities for project management, creation of idea, project integration, and originality through the management of complex project and the construction principles of the factory of the future.

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Personnel's training is an important issue for improving performance of projects. Conventional way of training has emphasized lecture-based individual learning for improving project managers' ability. However, this way has a limit to the training effect. In this paper, we introduce a framework of Modern Project Management training, which emphasize practice-based group learning provided by professional project managers.

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In this paper, Project Manager Education Course for Software Development is designed that based on Project-based Learning. There are some problems in the practice of software development on the university, e.g., which the most students who didn't have the experience of the project got confused with at the planning phase. Therefore, the guide line for the application of project which showed it in the planning phase was designed to support of the student as the countermeasure of these problems.

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The practice in software development, which is based on the theory of project-based learning, is performed for the junior students of Chiba Institute of Technology. According to the evaluation of the practice, there are some problems that influence on the educational result, e.g., the lack of the personal project experience confuse the most student on the planning phase. In this paper, the guide-line system, which arises from the consideration of the countermeasure of these problems, is proposed to implement to the practice.

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In the severe competition in global market, project engineering has been executed with the use of widely networked computer system. Though connection with the Internet for exchange the information world-widely makes the benefits, various risks must be considered in applying the open network technologies. Since projects in general have been executed in tight schedule, failures caused by triggering from outside parties may result in serious time delay due to recovery the engineering data. Security assessment is needed for the networked system to be used. In this paper, a unified approach to analyze the risks is presented. It is based on applying the fault tree and event tree methods for the failures of computer network and project data files.

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The Guidebooks of Project Management are penetrated in America and European industries, and the similar standard is desired by Japanese public and private sectors deeply rooted in its unique cultural climate. This paper deals with the third generation type project management scheme and principles linking sustainable growth perspective. The standard version will be published on coming late October and only essential part of the framework is introduced because of space limitation.

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The consideration of the risk is important for the success in project management. The right control of the risk, which is identified on the project planning stage, is required to perform the appropriate project management. The discussion of the technique for the risk identification and for the risk quantification is popular in the field of reliability & safety engineering. However there are a few discussions such technique in the field of project management. In this paper, FMECA is applied to the identification and to the quantification of the project risk event. The identification technique of risk is also considered to fill up the column which is replace "the failure mode" of FMECA work sheet to "the risk event".

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This paper issues that a problem area of large projects which have a lot of members is human resource management, communication management, and Project Manager Leadership in that area is important. Addressing the importance of 4 project management processes, Initiation/Planning/Execution/Closing, which are defined in PMBOK, and will clarify that Task Management based on 4 project management process cycles, with earned-value analysis is most effective for Project Management.

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There is a problem that improves the performance of the team in the project management. The performance of the team depends on the team-building and the communication. In this study, it evaluates team-building strategy from the communication management. It uses "richness" and "reach" which is used for the evaluation of the Internet. As the case, it analyzed the team building strategy in the questionnaire investigation.

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One of the things which are necessary to raise the team ability of the project is improvement of the degree of the satisfaction to the work of the partner who is a belonging member. The work of the project about the information system is advanced intellectual work and is because the height with degree of the satisfaction influences the height of the result mainly. However, as for the satisfactory factor to the project member, it wasn't so far examined. In this research, it reports the result which was considered by implementing a questionnaire to the partner about the factor with degree of partner's being satisfied(PS).

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On an EC(Electric Commerce)site developing project, the term of project is usually short(few week to few months). As well as the reduction of costs and workloads-such as using knowledge and packaged software, appropriate organization development that involves assignment of required skills on required term is important. And communication planning between stakeholders such as web contents designer must be considered in organizational plan, because design changes may occur from them.

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NPO(nonprofit organization)s have started their trials for social action programs for the diversified needs of the society. Among the added values we have to address in the 21th century, life & culture, environment and home care are the areas NPOs have some advantage over businesses. It is necessary to introduce project management inoo NPO projects in order to carry them out successfully. Effective project management for NPO will be discussed based on PMBOK which have been applied to various business projects with a lot of success.

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