This research addresses the human resource management and intends to teach the importance and necessity of team management through a business game specialized to the human aspects of a project. The business game is designed to be a card game which models the marketing activities, and learners are supposed to develop the skills of the marketing team by referencing the skills inventory and providing the necessary education so that the marketing goal can be achieved. The game provides the opportunity to learn the team building process through the project-based learning. This paper presents the overview of the business game as well as the results of the trial runs with the first-year students.

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Subject goal of the project management subject of MOT is to construct own knowledge how to advance project management processes and how to integrate related skills and tools. It is necessary to design the class in consideration of student's background and knowledge level in order to improve the education effect to its maximum. An evaluation criteria for the project management subject was formulated in preparation for the design of the class curriculum of project management. In this paper, it reports on making of the criteria of learning evaluation and the class design intended for the project management class in the graduate school of MOT, Yamaguchi University.

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In promoting the Social Project, operating of consortium as its promotion organization is effective. This is a study paper considering the point of consortium's role in the Social Project Management, and its establishment and operation from the viewpoint of Project Management.

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The risk management is indispensable to the success for the project. However, the risk management of caused by a human factor is insufficient in a present risk management technical. In this research, it proposes a detailed risk identification method using the risk investigation vote in addition to a past risk management tool, the risk measures that use the scenario planning, and the review. The accuracy improvement of the risk management can be expected by using this fruit of research results.

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The risk evaluation is one of the important processes in the risk management. However, the neither analysis nor evaluation tool have been established of the risk management of caused by human error because of diversity of the factor and a complex causal relation. In this paper, it is proposed that the evaluation tool of the risk factor caused by human error using competency. The identification of the risk factor caused by human error becomes possible by using the technique, and the accuracy improvement of the risk evaluation can be expected.

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Software development projects sometimes face a lot of requirement changes after requirements specifications are produced. Even though requirements changes sometimes cause the overrun of the project schedule, we must accept those requirements changes during the project. Our research has started with the intention not to miss the adequate timing to elicit requirements. In this context, requirements elicitation includes eliciting new requirements and changing requirements. We regard all these activities as necessary development activities for the project success. This paper focuses on a real project which was completed within the scheduled term. When the development was in progress, the engineers elicited requirements and changed requirements. We report and discuss that the risks avoidance in the project depend on the process of requirements elicitation.

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