As the requirements for IT solutions become more and more demanding, it becomes difficult to carry out IT projects, and their failures has become not uncommon as well. To cope with this situation, business enterprises analyze the causes of failures and try to learn the lessons from failed projects. Through these activities, major causes of failures have been clarified and they are useful references for other projects and organizations. However, from the viewpoint of preventing the same types of problems and failures, there are some cases where the lessons cannot be applied or the prevention itself may be difficult. In fact, it is not sufficient to simply investigate causes in analyses of complex IT projects. This thesis clarifies the fundamental issues of the above situation.

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Project consists of human, and its success factor depends on the project's member and especially project manager (PM). As for the progress of project's organization, at first PM will share the common operational picture in order to establish a scheme of visualization, secondly PM will promote collaboration by team building, and then PM will orient the entire organizational optimization utilizing self synchronization. Measures of risk assessment and PM training have implemented to prevent project failures, but issues have not decreased now. According to utilize lessons from project failures, measures about strict control, report and training are not thoroughly/fully effective. In this paper, evaluation about PM's style and the measure's effectiveness is considered. At a failed project, the PM style wasn't appropriate to situation of the project. The PM style should be optimized with situation of the project, culture of the organization or team. Utilizing lessons efficiently needs to control project appropriately, share specific and useful knowledge, and then attract PM's (trainee's) interest and to think over the root cause.

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Conducted a review of artifacts in various situations, in the development of information systems we are to ensure the quality of the information system. Once upon a time, by site with problems in quality, improve the quality of the review, we have succeeded in improving the quality of Review. Efforts month has passed, and develop detailed rules when updating the system, and ensure the basic operations, such as the review is gone. However, from the case where re-tried to catch up by thorough basic behavior occurs subsequent quality issues, we will discuss a point to continue the thorough and basic operation of the importance of the basic movement of such reviews.

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Last September, I took a 500 kilo meter bicycling tour from Vienna to Plague. This paper attempts to describe how it went, what we found and what lessons we learned throughout the tour.

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Requirements for leadership will be changed on the aspects of the society and times, just as the shift from management to leadership in the past. This paper shows the shift of people's interest from leadership/project management to happiness/heart. The components of Personal-PM framework are re-examined in the viewpoint of two-axes applied in leadership theories, and the importance of emotion side is suggested in addition to the performance side of current PM knowledge for organizations. For that reason, Personal PM will gradually have important roles in the PM and leadership world.

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The foundation of project management may be PDCA. That is, making project plan first, monitoring project, and controlling it so that it may progress and end as planned first. However, in the present age when changes of the environment which surround projects is sharp, it becomes very difficult to decide the specification of the products, in the first stage. The risk management is a series of activities which identifies preconditions and indefinite matters as risks beforehand to the project plan, makes action plans to risks, and repeats check & action at the turning point of execution phases. When this scheme is applied to a complexity project as it is, risk management cost may become huge and there is a possibility that the change control including change of a project scope may be exercised frequently. In this paper I propose risk management based project management method, that is, risk management should be done in everyday management activities not periodical PDCA management. This method can be expected to decrease stakeholder's stresses -allergic reaction to scope change requests- sharply, and will increase the efficiency of the formal plan decision activities of projects, and worth of the last goal will increase by extension.

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We held a "Mental Health Research SPM_MH Workshop 2012 in SEOUL" in cooperation with the Integrated Research Institute of Construction and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University in August 2012. The objectives of the workshop are to work together with Korea and Japan, to tackle mental health problems which have been highlighted in recent years in both countries. On this opportunity, we compared mental health problems internationally and analyzed Japan's efforts over the last 20 years and the achievement. Report the results of comparative research and workshops in Korea and Japan.

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In the system development projects, there are various problems when we go through the analysis that actually uses the data though it is assumed that a quantitative project evaluation is preferable. Especially, the result of analysis is different because of viewpoint and skill of the analyst. When the index value as the data arranged in the past and the data in the project of the present progressive, it is necessary to evaluate the project with considering the difference of various preconditions. We consider that those evaluation methods have been depend on the individual's mental model. In this paper, the mechanism that understands and monitors the state of the project to the quantitative in the project executing phase is presented. We propose to employ the model substitute for the items that is difficult to acquire the data. A better decision making is supported by presenting the scenario that becomes the indicator of the performance evaluation of the team based on the organization power model.

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By this report, we consider the correlation between motivation and human resource development in the project. And also discussed based on the results of research conducted in practice. Project is an opportunity for career growth for the participants. There are important efficient initiatives and motivation for the project members, for the development of their career, especially in the ongoing projects. It is necessary to success the project, not only human resource development. Results of a survey that we conducted, we found that there are several key points. 'Communication' has an influence on Entry and Middle level members. How affects the motivation, it varies from person to person, that feel about the same event. From these results, we discuss about possibility of human resource development to use tools for comprehend what is stronger point of personal qualities. And we propose to take communication based on such point, and to manage the motivation.

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The Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (J-SOX) was applied from fiscal year 2008, and "establishment" of control was achieved by working on consolidation and documentation of necessary rules, and issues, which were required to comply with IT General Control (IT-GC). The ensuing issue was to promote further cost reduction by "efficiency improvement", which reduces the work for audit, while retaining required quality for control, as a next step. Therefore, this paper suggests formulation and commonization of IT-GC control items, review of key control items, and improvement of audit documents, as efforts by IT Control Development Team, to improve efficiency of IT-GC. In consequence of implementation of these activities, the number of key control items for systems in-scope of IT-GC has been reduced by about 22%, and the work related to audit, by about 55%.

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In recent years, a significant amount of software development work has been transferred from Japan to China, India and other countries in order to effect cost reduction. In addition, system maintenance operations have already begun to be performed outside Japan in order to cut down on expenses. When transferring work offshore, one always confronts inevitable problems caused by cultural differences, unfamiliar business methods and language barriers. The biggest problem is generally the lack of expertise (also known as "explicit knowledge"), which is difficult to capture in a written manual. This makes it difficult to 'pass on' one's tasks to others. As a solution, we came to focus on the 'SECT model'. The SECI model is a highly creative method which focuses on systematically sharing specialized knowledge with others and helps them to obtain new knowledge at a higher level. In this document we will state our case for the adoption of the SECI model as a means of aiding the transfer of system maintenance tasks to overseas locales.

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In projects, productivity improvement is the subject always asked and should be an on-going process in which the productivity results are reviewed and based on the reviews some improvements are taken in the next project for achieving higher productivity. For driving effective productivity improvement actions, review of the result is important, and in the review, quantitative evaluation based on track record data is essential. In this article we introduce our improvement and sustaining activities of the real projects around collecting and analyzing track record data needed for validating productivity measurements and productivity improvement action.

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Recently, the project management capability is to be required not only for project managers but also for IT engineers. It is really increasing that the project which cannot keep going if only the pyramid type project organization, because that the types of projects is of infinite variety, such as project using packaged products, iterative development with business users, and multi-countries' project. This paper defines the project management ability expected to IT engineer, and it considers that the activity to which it urges with mind is effective for the improvement in capability. Moreover, a measure effective for the improvement in project management ability of IT engineer is becoming common, and it is thought that it is effective also as an educational program for a student or junior project managers.

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In a project, people encounter the various kinds of unexpected problems, and each project member has to cope with those problems by giving them priority. On the other hand, resources such as human-resources, time, and cost are often limited in a project, and especially un-experienced young members have some difficulties in solving them. In this article, we propose an approach to share the Empirical Project Knowledge by playing "Sugoroku", a board game, and examine its advantage.

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In the Project Management, it is favorable to detect the risk of project in the early project phase. This paper proposes estimation method for risk status in project. It can be considered that subcontractor cooperation, member's skill, specification fixation, cost satisfaction, participation of customer management. The proposed method extracts factors to estimate risk status by quantification method of the first type.

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The organization of event that executes multiple different style projects usually divides them in project unit. However, this organization scheme makes difficult to facilitate collaboration between projects especially for few volunteer and short duration event. It leads to decrease sustainability of entire event for project specified project planning and staff motivation. Hence, this study organized collaboration process for event management and reported validation in case study.

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Our company's semiconductor product is a core part of the systems of our customers. We carry out risk management thoroughly conventionally so that a development project does not fail by loss cost such as rework. By this lecture, I introduce an example of "risk management in the product plan and precedent development" and "making structure to raise effect of the risk management" and I want to convey importance of the process improvement by cooperation of a development team and EPG (Engineering Process Group).

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Recently the environment which surrounds a company is increasing severity, and the request level to a development vendor, about the time for delivery, quality, and cost, from a company which plans to order for IT system is getting higher. In the development vendor to which I belong, there are many cases that IT system development projects face troubles, after project initiation. As a result, those cases disturb the achievements of a company and bring negative impacts to financial performance. Through the confused project that I was assigned, I would like to consider the causes of troubled projects.

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Generally, to manage a system development project for a multi-user service, it is essential for the project manager to manage cost and scope considering the plan of investment and recovery, and payout time. When the project retracts the functional and operational requirements of the system from the first user of the service, the project should distinguish the retracted requirements, which are the common requirements of the service, and which are the special requirements of the first user. In addition, the project should consider the both requirements to accomplish the both goal-system development of the service and introduction of the system for the user. This paper describes a case which successfully managed the two targets.

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Security of the quality of the system has been demanded from a custmer in the system which is called mission-critical-system. I introduce that it contributes to securing of system quality to secure the quality of the infrastructure as 1 example on pushing forward the development of the system. I introduce a point and the content that I acted as an example to secure the quality of the infrastructure. I am convinced that I have you find reference and a point in other system development spots, I believe that I am connected for way of thinking and solution to system development excavation for new development promotion that is mission-critical-system.

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The importance of human resource development of PM has been pointed out in the past. However, no method has been found effective. The hypothesis that the type of experience in training, which produces a high learning effect, is to support learning for individuals there, we have to validate it. For verification, we created a model of learning and teaching. We also learned the theme of risk management skills. A characteristic of support is a balancing training as a group and individual learning. As a result, we were able to give a change in consciousness and behavior of learners.

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The Great East Japan Earthquake struck during the implementation of the huge national network system. The project was rebuilt and completed by organizing and analyzing the risks manifested by the earthquake. This paper describes a case study of risk management during the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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This paper studies the stakeholder analysis in Personal-PM. Stakeholder management is important even in personal projects. To perform personal projects smoothly with successful results, it is necessary to identify stakeholders of the projects, and to analyze their corresponding positions of power and interest. This paper also shows examples which explain how to manage the gap between the expectations and the outlook (forecast) of the project.

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Applying project management knowledge and technique to a non-business area, including personal activities, is a valuable thing. And conversely, it increases accuracy of group's project management for project member to acquire a management skill through risk management on a personal matter. In this paper, study and propose how to deploy the risk management on personal project.

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In system development project, change requests cause delivery delay and cost overrun. In case of implementing the change request, the workloads only do not increase monotonically, but it is difficult to evaluate architected function reuse. Furthermore, it is needed to evaluate the impact of system corrections for change request. In this study, we considered the development status in the project and how a quantitative estimate of the workloads required implementing the change request which modeled how to evaluate the influence that it affects an entire system.

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In software development projects, development size estimation is important in project management. However, the development size is underestimated by lack of information in the early stage. In this study, we proposed a method to evaluate the development size based on use case points method. Focus of the proposal is the influence of stakeholders. We incorporated user information into the evaluation formula by counting the user property. In addition, non-functional requirements are evaluated with the assistance of non-functional requirements grade.

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In promoting of the local revitalization program, the Kyogikai (conference) is an important organization that plans, executes, and evaluates various projects in a regional society. This paper is the study that the role of the Kyogikai (conference) in the local revitalization program and the point such as the organizations are considered from the viewpoint of the organization management.

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SaaS (Software as a Service) as a kind of cloud system has spread. In order to keep system qualities service level management is introduced. Conventional service level management methods use technical service objectives, but do not use business service objectives to be realized in SaaS. In this paper, developments and evaluations of business service objectives and their application methodology for SaaS service management are reported. In the scope of accounting systems, business processes, data and their relations are analyzed, and based on the analyzed model, some kinds of objectives are defined, such as business process performance objectives, functionality objectives, usability objectives, and objectives on business speed, accuracy and risk. The service management methodology to use the business objectives and technical objectives to be reported in JEITA guideline, include several steps; service objective concept understanding step, costumer hearing step, service level setting step, agreement step and check & adjustment step.

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The writer teaches students of master grade a Project Based Learning (PBL) subject as a full-time employment professor Tsukuba University graduate school. In this subject each project which has four or five students and they try to develop the agreement for their customers, managed to develop system and carry it out till they hand the system to customer. This paper describes problems into which student team falls easily at PBL, the method of instruction for swerving , protecting and the index for measuring the effect of instruction and the device of project management.

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the effects and issues in applying Earned Value Management to Personal-PM. To-Do list is a practical tool and indispensable for Personal-PM. Also, it would be effective to apply EVM to the task which requires a lot of hours in the To-Do list, as a pacemaker to avoid bad influence of such big tasks on the other items done parallel. If time is used as value, it will be easy for anybody to apply EVM. In that case, it would be much easier to apply it to Personal-PM than to Organizational PM.

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As the cost for system maintenance is only increasing, the savings on the system maintenance cost is one of the important task that needs to be continuously worked through I would like to suggest the offshore of maintenance as a solution for the cost savings. Maintenance of the application requires high level operations, knowledge, and in addition to these, prompt and accurate action and quality is also required. To maintain the service level after transferring offshore, it is essential to succeed in KT: Knowledge Transfer. In this article, I will explain the methodology how to lead the application maintenance transfer to off-shore successfully.

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This paper reports background, planning, and implementation about education of Project Management, which was conducted to students of a secondary school. Students are taught on how to carry out the project of annual festival and challenged Project Based Learning (PBL) through acquired PM expertise. This project was conducted with cooperation of PM professional organization, junior and senior high school.

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Rich experienced project managers take similar action pattern for preventing or solving project problem. By learning those action patterns as know-how of project management, little experienced managers get to prevent or solve project problems like rich experienced managers. NTT DATA CORPORATION has been developing action patterns of managers and engineers with rich experience in IT infrastructure. These patterns have been widely used in NTT DATA group companies and have reduced project risk. In this paper, we introduce how to develop patterns for sharing the know-how of experienced managers and a case of IT infrastructure 'Anti-Pattern' developed with that method in NTT DATA CORPORATION, and discuss the effect.

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