In order to handle the multi-vender project smoothly, we have established the project process based on the goals and practices of the integrated project management defined in CMMI. And we have established five processes based on IDEAL model, that are 'Analysis of present state and Initiations', 'Promotion planning of each phase', 'Explanation of the promotion methodology', 'Monitoring of promoting situation' and 'Improvement of promoting situation', so we have promoted the project successfully. Constructed processes, data and lessons have been released to the same kind of business units and then to the other business units. The purpose for release is to improve a project management and the standard of integrated project management, and to develop that standard horizontally. This paper represents the integrated project management process established this time and its practical example.

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To support the introduction of an effective in-house business support system, we have constructed the system that supported right or wrong of the development investment and the clarification of the priority level, by evaluating the opportunity and the effect of the investment, risk factors of the developing process, and the justilication of the system. The system is a scoring system of checklists base, and by using score information on the opportunity and the risk and the justification, the system clarifies a status of each project and makes the project portfolio map. The operation of the system began in March, 2007, and 31 real projects were evaluated by July.

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The Project Assessment Indicator (PAI) that the author proposed is now in place as a tool to assess a project quantitatively. Since the quantitative assessment indicator possesses its performance goal, the indicator should be designed to fit to measure its performance. Then we proposed the PAI to be categorized into 8 parts, on which the performance is assessed. In this paper, we propose a mathematical model for the quantitative assessment using the AHP. Therefore, this enables us to clarify objectives of the assessment indicator and ways to achieve its objectives.

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In case of product development, adyantage or disadvantage of development speed or efficiency of development investment may influence its business result On the other hand, development process complicated through continuous improvement (Kaizen) or under the justice of innovation may reduce the efficiency of development. This study defines the relationship between development process and project management and the condition why the maximum efficiency can be realized as well.

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As problems in upbringing of the personnel required engaging in software development, that there is not a road map of the only general situation that there is as for the step-by-step educational program in the specification technical area where grasp of present conditions skill is not systematic, and an aim and connection of the knowledge that you should learn are uncertain is given. In addition, a person belong too much to the same project for a long term, and it is problems that defiection is reflected on experience. Therefore I decide to devise inflection of an IT skill standard, making of a career path definition based on an IT skill standard and an educational program according to a carrier. In addition, I consider a figure of the rotation that there should be.

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Since last year NTT DATA Corporation has been introducing a new system, PM certification system, which puts the right PM (Project Manager) in the right position according to the scale and the difficulty of the project. In this paper, we explain the new system and consider whether the system has a good effect or not.

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In recent years, the increase of the degree of complexity of a systems configuration, a short period of time/quality demand is becoming strong. In Such a situation, early training of PM with high practice power is pressed for solution as a problem of an organization. This paper describes 'Transition and transformation model' to utilize for early training method of PM with high practice.

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It is proposed that "Community" is one of effective mechanism to increase project manager's competency level. However a definition of Community and an operation of the community are not well organized, thus taking various styles and forms. Effectiveness of the community is not clearly measured because of its difficulty in continuous management of cross-departmental functions. This paper discusses a type of "Community" formation and its effectiveness and proposing a practical application to a business activity.

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PM Community can be one of the tools to deploy Enterprise Project Management (aka EPM). In Manufacturing & Development division of IBM Japan, PM coommunity is organized by voluntary members and operated as voluntary activities. The expectation to PM Community from stakeholders becomes greater and the activity scope is not small. So, it is not easy to keep enough and Stable human resources (aka HR) for deploying the plan. In that area, keeping not only utilization of HR but also high motivation can be recognized as the part of important key factor for success. This paper shows the effective measures for Project HR Management subjects in the voluntary-based project.

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Recent systems development projects are becoming increasingly difficult and project managers (PMs) are forced to deal with more difficult situations than they have experienced in old projects. Conventional project reviews and classroom training are not sufficient to train PMs that can handle critical matters. Mentoring activities are used to complement PM training programs. Mentoring is a series of activities in which experienced mentors provide inexperienced mentees with various support from social and psychological points of view for carrier development. We explain our company's mentoring approach and operational issues identified during the implementation.

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Recently, the baby boom generation retires, the workman who has the considerable experience decreases sharply, and Serious one side is thrown on Enterprise Management. It is feared not to be able to hand down the development experience cultivated for years and the project management experience to drink and for pandemonium in the problem project to have gone through many enough similarly even on the system development site through the construction of a general purpose machine system, the opening and the system systems, and Web systems, etc., and to face the generation change. In this text, know-how and the lesson that the author oneself drank and studied from the experience many are recognized the literary property of the company, and it introduces the approach that succeeds to the "DNA" to the junior.

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NTT Data Corporation has declared a clear strategy in its previous mid-term management plan for strengthening competitiveness in SI business as a core component and achieved the target sales of one trillion yen. The company is currently undertaking various strategies with the aim to increase profit in line with its current mid-term management plan, As part of the strategies, PM training programs and visual control of development processes are implemented. While project sites are trying to apply various approaches, they often have difficulty in steadily implementing the approaches and running PDCA process. We have introduced skill PKI to a project as a measurement of project performance. We explain the implementation and a future direction.

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Our PM community activities started in Oct, 2005. We made clear the direction just for our company through those activities after one year and six months passed. It has become clear that we tend to put emphasis on communication by the consciousness research and discussion among the project leaders who are the members, and also the comparisons with other companies. Considering the characteristic, our slogan for 2007 is "Let's carry out Project Management cheerfully, happily, and brightly !". And we expand the activities, following our slogan.

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We, Hitachi East Japan Solutions, have started applying the Project Management Office (PMO) system in order to enforce our project management system since April, 2003. We have assigned a full-time PMO member for each business function, which is one feature of our PMO system worth noting. They took responsibility to apply and popularize the project management methods and tools that are appropriate for each business function. However, it was our challenge to manage and share project information to monitor numbers of projects in a cross-functional and timely manner. For that reason, we had developed a process management solution on the basis of our project visualization tool, of which concept is seam-less collaboration between human and information technologies (IT). And since April 2007, we have utilized the solution as our standard process management tool. By utilizing the tool, we consider that we can optimize project management processes and achieve performance improvement of projects in terms of quality, cost, and delivery conformance or customer services as a result. In this paper, we report case studies of the project visualization tool to software development from the PMO's stand point to contribute to project perfbrmance improvement.

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A work stressor of the IT project is high, thus the mental health problem has become a serious risk. The nature of this stressor comes from the necessity of solving the following difficult issues. ・The first issue is when working on an inexperienced project in which one must satisfy fixed customer specifications made in the past even though the prospect of the project is unclear. ・The second issue is when a team of workers with different skill levels and biorhythm is manually providing products and services in despite of the fact that they must be at high quality and should have no variation among them. ・The last issue is when a teamwork and a total optimization of the project are tried tobe implemented to a team consisted of persons who essentially want to work on their own terms. In this article, I would discuss the way to solve above issues from viewpoints of the brain science since the brain is responsible for a human intellectual activity and feels the stress as well. In this regard, I believe that the following characteristics and structures of the brain would be the key factors. ・The first factor is a three-layer structure of the brain and an addition of subjective stresses. ・The second factor is an information processing method of the brain, and enhancing and lessening factors of subjective stresses. ・The last factor is adaptation strategies of the brain to an environment, which are diversity and redundancy strategies, a study enhancement strategy, and a degeneration strategy.

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This is a case study of corporate innovation to promote "Kowledge Management (KM)" in an outsourcer of Information-Technology. In this case stUdy, influence of leadership styles in the typical stages of a corporate innovation is described. Phases of KM are divided into these stages. We have researched suitable leadership style according to each of these stages for years. This paper reports the application result in a certain project.

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This paper discusses how the project individual members understand and accept a new project management method by analyzing their replies to the questionnaire of their company which successfully introduced and established the critical chain project manegement method. For the analysis, this paper proposes an organization-individual integration model by applying the modeling technique. As the result, we obtained such lessons leamed as that problem-solving approach is very important, and how understanding their own role in the organization proceeds.

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Negotiation ability is one of the most important skills required for a project manager. It seems to imply that the level of this ability depends upon the building up experience in mally projects. On the other hand, in view of the present situation of the lack of project managers in software industries, the education of negotiation ability for students who have no experiences to participate a practical project has been required. This paper describes the results of analysis of the student's negotiation ability obtained by the role playing practice of price negotiation, the practical work to interview senior students through making an appointment to reporting the hits of this work and the questionnaire survey by the students. The results show that the young students are extremely lack of mind for the creative problem solving. In addition we propose the education methodology to improve the ability for negotiating.

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To make my opinion obediently expressed in the presence of others, it introduces a phased, effective technique that uses "Look back" named KPT.

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In receni years, the increasing marriage age and the increasing divorce rate are social problem. But, many young people hope that they will find a good partner and have a happy marriage life. Then, there are differences and issues between the ideal and the real. In this report, we will discuss the issues with thinking of that Love and Marriage life is a kind of project.

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The principle of the project management is planning, executing, monitoring and correcting. They are called the Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle. However, the environment in project management is getting more difficult for the speed of the technical improvement and the adjustment of stake-holders in recent years. Therefore it become more difficult to carry out the project management as scheduled. In the changing situation, the visualization and information sharing becomes more important for the project management. In this paper, I arrange the visualization in the project management from the view point of the situated approach, and study the visualization method in project management.

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In order to valuate productivity in IT projects, source lines of code (SLOC) measured in man-month unit or function points are commonly used as measurements. In practical terms, however, improving productivity targets does not guarantee better profit performance. While productivity measurements used in throughput accounting, which is based on theory of constraints (TOC), can solve this problem, simple implementation of the accounting principles is not suitable for long-term projects. In this paper we propose a method for evaluation of project productivity based on throughput accounting.

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In our project management which frequently builds a social infrastructure, must continue the business whenever unexpected hazard has happen. It is however, when an avian influenza that is infection disease reaches epidemic (pandemic), intentional business continuity activities may spread the infection faster. Thus, we cease the business with an avian influenza preparedness plan, as it is designed. This paper proposes a plan of cessation of business beyond a business continuity plan.

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Tele-work tools and infrastructure have been established in Enterprises on consideration to global environment and expectation to business process efficiency etc., Therefore those tools and infrastructure will be applied to their daily work and projects more than before. Here, IT-solution developmeni project using Tele-work tools and infrastructure is studied from a viewpoint of the communication management of PMBOK.

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Through project life cycle, so many kinds of project meetings are held as a purpose of communication. Brain storming style workshops at project concept phase, DCP (Decision Check Point) meeting to make important decision and Project status meeting are some of the examples for many kinds of project meetings. All of these meetings are important from the view of communication. But the control of the meetings is difficult, becanse each meeting is executed by a different style and the attendees who have a different view point each other. Meeting minutes are an important item of project meeting. To keep the quality of project process, it is important to write/use the meeting minutes effectively. In this paper, it is considered and proposed how to write project meeting minutes and its effective usage.

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Although PMBOK is almost looked upon as de facto standard, it is not always applied effectively to actual projects under the present condition in Japan and it is considered that there are issues of how to apply effectively. In this paper, how to apply PMBOK to projects is rethought by classifying features of PMBOK.

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The Personal Project, which has iterative phase, is difficult to grasp the status of the project by the water-fall to do list and difficult for effective progress management. This paper introduces my experience of progress management for making document applying the process of iterative development. The process of iterative development is popular by Rational Unified Process. Making proposal document needs to strict progress management becanse customer requires short duration to complete. However, that progress management is difficult for inexperienced worker. Because that's process usually does not belong to waterfall process for the change request of proposal policy and necessity of revision. Hence, I made WBS applying the concept of iterative development process for making proposal document for easy execution of that progress management.

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The practical guidebook for elementary project management (hereafter PM) education was developed and the educationa effects were verified in the previous report. It is very important to develop the effective education tool to practice the PM elementary education widely on the site of education. It is also necessary that many school teachers can be obtained easily from website the education tool anytime. The research describes on the development of practical PM elementary education tool using internet.

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PMI standard OPM3 provides the list of the best practices demonstrated in matured organizations. In this paper, authors analyzed the relationships between the best practices and the organizational project management processes, especially from the view point of an organizational enabler.

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