I designed PAI (project assessment indicators) with that PMO estimate the status of projects quantitatively and did assessment of projects with it. In this paper, This report introduces the important notices to make PAI and expression of the situation of projects and organizations with PAI and maturity model according to progresses stage of projects and actions for those status. Furthermore, the future activity direction that stood on evaluation for PMO activity from project managers and stakeholders.

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The time and effort required to correct a software defect that enter the product in its development phase increase as the detection of the defect gets delayed and becomes later in the process, causing the increase of development cost. Investigating the cause of the defect and the reasons for the delay of its detection will lead to finding improvements for the development process. We would like to present a method of process improvement which focuses on the analysis of those software defects that weren't timely detected.

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In short-term small-scale projects, sparing time to develop capable team is difficult. Therefore, appropriate human resource management becomes the key to the success of such projects. Here, as a tool that gives a great effect on those projects, "Pre-Assignment" is introduced and is observed. In this paper, by giving an example, a positive effect that "Pre-Assignment" could produce is proposed.

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Under strong IT system development demand, it is needed to make an effective project team at project initiation phase. However we face a resource shortage and team building difficulty. Under such an environment, it is still needed to build and keep suitable team formation behind each project characteristics. In this paper, I will try to describe how we build a functional team from scope management point of view.

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In the System of the Project management, the purpose of the paper is that the test team which includes project Management Office is effective in the developing and testing phase. To improve the issue of the developing and testing, organizing the test team is more effective.

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Mitsubishi Electric Information Systems Corporation is introducing PMBOK into a system production standard from 2000 and practicing it in the project management (PM) in an SE section mainly. In addition, we are promoting the process improvement that utilized CMMI and improve maintenance of project management information system (PMIS) as environment helping PM in form in parallel with this. This paper reports the improvement activity of PMIS and the present conditions.

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In the deployment of Enterprise Project Management (EPM), it is an undisputed fact that Project Management Office (PMO) plays an important role. As a bottom-up approach that complements the top-down approach promoted by PMO, a case of PM community activity is reported in this paper. It outlines the activities of a PM fostering task, a voluntary task that was formed in IBM M&D (Yamato Laboratory) in 2005. It also describes the effects of the task activities so far and discusses the effectiveness and impact of community activities as a bottom-up approach.

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In NTTDATA Public Administration Department, we have been carrying out the PM education using the mentoring techniques to succeed skills and know-how from experienced PM to PM in the growth. It is important that the process in which mentees practice what they learned in the mentoring, but it is not always practiced due to their business condition. To solve the problem, we design the mentoring program based on idea of the action learning techniques which enable mentees to continue the learning process. In this paper, we would introduce the problem of what we have faced when carrying out the mentoring program, and the solution using the action learning techniques as a first report of the mentoring program under execution.

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Key factor of system integration is human resource. Success of system integration project depends on project managers. Project managers with technological knowledge and practical project management skill are critical to system integration business. This paper introduces our business unit's effort to foster such practical project manager in following points, and describes its enhancement points. 1) Education about technological knowledge. 2) Fostering project managers through real project management work.

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As more open-systems development projects are running in the midst of growing demand for IT, the number of project managers required is also mounting. On the other hand, project conditions are getting tougher year after year. As a result, it is very difficult to provide enough training for project managers. In order to solve difficulties in the training and accomplish further growth in our SI business, NTT Data has been applying the in-house PM accreditation scheme since 2003 as a part of its skills development programs for project managers. NTT Data's SI competency department PMO is currently planning to implement measures, which are expected to start in the course of 2006, that focus on improving the quality of project management skills. We explain our activities as a case study of PMO.

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In the 11 National Conference of the SPM 2005, we announced the key capability of the project manager (PM) is the human management skill that much exists as unknown knowledge. Mentoring technique is effective to build up the PM skill. Support of mentor can succeed to the PM skill. This paper propose the practical Scheme of Mentoring that referred to case study of information technology enterprises.

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It is difficult for a student to acquire experiences of the business routine on the job training (OJT). Therefore, we introduce a project management education system which employs the role play method and offers the vicarious learning environment. We have two types of the role play: one is the actual human group and another is like the network game using Web application. In this paper, the comparing of the learning effect of two types of role play is described and the merit and problem is discussed.

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The issue of skill development for project management is to learn expertise knowledge and to master his jobs through practical experience. In the Skill Standards for IT Professionals (ITSS), while the characteristics of project that they have experience are described using the key performance indicator, skill activities are not described. So it is difficult to get some guideline from the key performance indicator in ITSS. In other hands, evaluation for skill is also to measure experience from the some view points. There are many types of viewpoints to measure skill experience. Evaluation skill should be utilized some types methods in combination. In this paper, at the first, the view points of methods as attributions of evaluation are explained, and the some types of methods are identified with the view points. Then the characteristics of experts are measured. The subjects belong to a large IT service company. 33 project managers participated our investigation from the same department. The complexity and size of project as the key performance indicator have co-relations to the judge of high performance. These performance indicators have a few relations to maturity of risk management skill and leadership skill etc. These performance indicators will be derived from the practical experiences of human interface design activity and accountability.

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It is a critical factor that a so-called bold type as project manager' s important individual characteristic (Courage). Power to draw out team member's laughter is necessary for moving power and the team that can laugh even if driven in to a very critical situation. We call this "Power of humor" or "Shoryoku". In this research, "Shoryoku" is researched by a success factor of project and related viewpoint, and it proposes the effect of Shoryoku for the project success.

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The personal characteristics of a project manager play a large part in determining whether a project will succeed or fail. One vital trait is fortitude at times of adversity. No matter what critical situation the project may be in, the project manager must retain a sense of humor and draw out team members' laughter to keep them motivated in times of difficulty. We call this "shoryoku," or "power of laughter." This paper discusses the process of creating "power of laughter" in project management.

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We have developed the system that supported an initial evaluation of opportunity, risk and justification of the project in an initial phase. It calculates the index of opportunity, risk and justification by using the checklist. And it supports a management strategy decision by project portfolio, the individual project status and an extraction of risk pending issues. Moreover, to improve an effectiveness of this system, a suitable checklist for the division that used this system was defined with the division member. In addition, a real project was evaluated by using this system, and the utility evaluation of the method was executed.

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In the main discourse, the approach that improves the accuracy of the result thing generated with the process of the in-house business system development is described. In this approach, it proposes the technique that uses the guideline that shows the purpose, the motive, and the case with the result thing. This technique assists in the union of the opinion to user and developer's result things, and the effectiveness is verified through an actual project.

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The promotion side might not advance as intended when the techniques of a new development process and the development standard, etc. are introduced, progressed, and spread to in-house. It is important to do the development (diffusion strategy) matched in object group and engineer's states when diffusing like this. Authors constructed the diffusion model and the strategy that paid attention to the psychology side as part of the Motivation research this time. Seven elements are listed, (1) object, (2) promotion method, means, (3) promotioners' characteristics, (4) management layers, (5) characteristic of the object groups (6) external information or pressure, and (7) individuals' roles in the team. The relations between these elements were examined, and it constructed it as a spread model. It was able to be concluded that it was important to take the spread strategy matched to the characteristic of the object group for smooth introductions of the result and a new technique and the technology, etc. We plan to verify models to develop the measurement by quantitative data. We hope to deploy these models with a lot of engineers involved in the work of the promotion and the introduction.

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This study considers communication and team building in a project using cognitive science concepts. We propose effective project manager communication strategies after analyzing pros and cons of differences in schema and cognition of context produced from differences in individual experiences of message senders and recipients.

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Team management has attracted attention in recent years, as one of the most important factors which affect success of a project. There are various issues in team management from the viewpoints of the human resource planning and the motivation. Communication has the very significant role for solving these issues. In this paper, we would describe a practical method of more effective and more efficient communication and leadership-style based on Project Team Life Cycle Concept in team management through the example of our SI projects.

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"Cost reduction", especially to reduce labor cost, in application development and maintenance is one challenge. It is considered as one solution to collaborate with global resources. In this paper, at first issues of team building in the case of working with global resources in China are summarized. Next, after dividing collaboration level into 3 stages, Initiating/Training/Performing, priority subjects of each stage are identified and solutions for each stage are proposed. Additionally positioning of global resource in a project of each stage is described.

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Since projects involving the development of dealing systems for financial institutions require expert knowledge in financial issues as well as advanced mathematical engineering, it is common for these projects to become so-called "Global projects", where the project team includes members from overseas system vendors and colleagues from overseas group companies. Furthermore, the rapid move toward globalization in recent years has made global projects a familiar reality. A "Global project" is defined as a project where the project team consists of members from multiple countries or regions. Therefore, in order to push the project toward success, the team must overcome various issues such as differences in language and cultural backgrounds among the members. Based on the author's past experience working on global projects at US/ Europe based companies with members of various nationalities, this document discusses key elements necessary in developing a cooperative relationship between Japanese and foreign team members, and aims to offer suggestions to managers of global projects in order to move toward success.

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The important points of the PMBOK are described in order to manage efficiently the Overseas Project IT Systems design and construction controlled by myself. (I am a chief of information working in PMBOK study team in PMI Tokyo)

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In IT industry, off-shore development in China is increasing for cost reduction. However, various problems have occurred in offshore development. The subject point in a writer's experience is mentioned. And the subject points are also listed based on the reference about off-shore development. Then, the writer analyze the communication structure, and compare the difference between China and Japan, from a communication management of PMBOK perspective. The writer proposes some actions, which makes offshore development successful, for project manager. In the last, the effect of the writer's proposal is described.

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In a world of ever-intensifying globalization, companies drive globalization in product developments. In this trend, the growing number of translation projects requires transmitting information to the world on the web. or product information that acts as interface between products and customers. However, it is difficult to perform quality control of translation, because "translation" depends on human resources. This paper proposes initial check process that is a method to control and improve the translation quality, and the test results for its effects.

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Quantitative project management (QPM) is one of the most effective methods to achieve project objectives surely. With QPM, we can understand facts objectively, identify problems early, take corrective actions appropriately, and as a result, we can lead our projects to their success. We have established a process of QPM based on the high-level process of CMMI Level 4 and 5. In this paper, we introduce an example and its benefits of having attained project objectives and business goals by implementing our high-level process of QPM.

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Recently, the activity for Embedded software development power strengthening is activating, and development management of the product which included Embedded software is also increasing importance. In a product development company, although there is a case which introduces the process of the U.S. styles, such as CMMI and PMBOK, it is thought that a product development process of Japan is not necessarily suited So, this paper studies th application possibility to Embedded system development management of "P2M" which is the new Japan project management knowledge capability system.

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The area of the project management and the relation are basically deep though ITIL^[○!R] advocates the best practice in the service management process. Because it is a source where the information system development project invents the IT service, it is thought that effectiveness to consider ITIL^[○!R] through the project is high. The project that doesn't think about the operation maintenance efficiency improvement becomes an operation maintenance phase, the effect the same as the expectation cannot be invented or it is counterbalanced, and there are a lot of cases. It is the one that the effectiveness of the consideration of ITIL^[○!R] in the information system development project for such a problem was considered.

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It is necessary to do construction which considers accessibility etc. from the plan stage so that Web contents may become information media of every sharing. The site construction that understands the characteristic of the handicapped person and the senior citizen, etc. is requested as standardized by JIS X 8341-3 in 2004. In this paper, in Web contents corresponding to various Web users, it proposes "Accessibility design guide line" along at the PDCA cycle advocated by the software development.

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The problems concerning information systems in an enterprise currently have been increasing in importance. The problem of redundant investments and biased knowledge is acute for enterprise management. Attention has been paid to the EA (Enterprise Architecture) in order to solve these problems. However, there is a draw back that it is difficult to evaluate performance in introducing the EA. In this research, a virtual project is set up, and an evaluation method measuring on effects which give the project performance is proposed.

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Web application has increased demand as a technology for BtoC every year. It is necessary to consider the handling of Web technology like the individual information and security for operation. When the customer where the information system knowledge is insufficient thinks about the Web application introduction, The selection of the Web technology is difficult. Therefore, the problem that the customer demand is not appropriately obtained occurs. Then, customer and Web application operator's skills are investigated in this thesis to obtain an appropriate customer demand, and it proposes the method of using the result for the Web technology selection.

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In the sports business of our country, it is changing from sports marketing to the sports management. However, deficit financing of broadcasting right fee and parent company which is different by team has problem. The professional sport is usually managed at the cycle of one year, the team is managed on a budget, and the business is accomplished heading to the goals. In order to promote the management of professional sports in this country, this report makes a feasibility of project management.

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It was examinede in the previous reporty that the optimum combination of project member in the venture company. As the result, the HRM in the small scale venture company for R&D was proposed. In the report, the competency map was developed basede on the survey of individual characters in a venture company. As the results, one of the HRM methods in small scale venture companies was proposed based on the knowledge base which was developed using the competency map.

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Many companies have already started the preparation for the observance of the SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act) for Japan, which is an enforcement schedule for the period on March, 2008. When the company responds to the SOX, the implementation method and coverage area greatly depend on its interpretation. According to an interpretation, there is an idea that strengthens the project management to manage the project activity, therefore, the project management will have deep relations in SOX. It introduces the project management, point to succeed and necessary to consider in the SOX implementation, from the viewpoint of the experience of the SOX implementation in some companies.

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After the enforcement of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (hereafter referred to as SOX Act") in the US and the subsequent circumstances, discussion and development of the laws have been proceeding in Japan. This is based on the obligation of internal control for the director, administrative executive, and CPA being an external auditor, of a public company (hereafter referred to as "company").In practical terms, the international standard for the basic outline of internal control would be the internal control framework (hereafter referred to as "COSO Framework") indicated in the "Internal Control - Integrated Framework", completed in 1992 by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, commonly known as COSO. In Japan, the basic outline of the internal control based on this (hereafter referred to as "Japanese COSO Framework") has become clear, and "Response to IT" has been newly added as one of the basic elements for the internal control. This article will consider the role that project management should perform and its effect for the internal control, after examination of the overview and features of the Japanese COSO Framework.

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Internal audits conducted as a part of a quality management system can provide useful information to revise and improve corporate rules and development standards. We can identify variety of issues on the rules and the standards to improve their applicability and effectiveness by analyzing the results of audits. We discuss the way to extract useful improvement proposals from the results of audits.

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In Graduate School of Innovation & Technology Management, Yamaguchi University, Advanced Project Management was started as an introduction subject in the management of technology education. For improvement the education effect to its maximum, it is necessary to consider education method, background, basic knowledge, an educational and an study target, the curriculum design, and making the teaching material, the measurement and the evaluation of the study result, integrated. In this presentation, it reports on the approach concerning the project management education executed in Yamaguchi University MOT graduate school in 2005 fiscal year.

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The discipline of the project manager needs a lot of money and long period. The optimal curriculum for basic education on project managing in university is proposed to shorten education period in actual society. The factors that failed projects are taken out from the actual project records. After these factors are analyzed the optimal curriculum that is consisted by the effective knowledge, technologies as the countermeasure for preventing these factors is proposed.

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The introduction of the project management (hereafter, PM) into the elementary education was investigated as one of the solution methods of various problems such as disorder in the classroom and the scholastic attainments decrease. The PM elementary education using the Trade Game (hereafter TG) was introduced to promote necessary skills for the communication and the leadership, etc. by the elementary education in this research. As the results, it is recognized that the effective application method of the PM education for the elementary education to promote the necessary skills such as leadership, communications, etc. by the group study.

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In this study, the evaluation method of commitment of software development project was proposed. The survey was conducted for an information system engineer assigned for software development project. The organizational commitment was analyzed by factors analysis. It is possible for project manager to grasp the relation between the member's personality and their commitment.

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Today's business environment changes violently, and many companies have continued discussing about the TO-BE state of the IT systems, which concerning their contributions to the business domain. The enterprise architecture (EA) began to attract attention again. However, as cost effectiveness of EA is not clear and the process of introducing EA is not clearly defined, many to these companies is reluctant to start EA projects. In this paper, I will try to answer to such questions based on our EA projects experience, and I hope the information will be helpful to the determination for introducing EA.

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The communication is one of an important factor that conducts the project successful result. The evaluation of the communication level is needed to find week points of the project communication status. In this paper an evaluation model of communication is proposed, which is constructed by using the concept of CMM (Capability Maturity Model). The proposed model is verified by using actual project records and found the relationship between evaluation level of communication and project successful rate.

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