Business is becoming advanced and project management in every direction is also becoming still more important. Nevertheless, under the present circumstances, PM personnel training in Japan is left to the in-house education of the company. However, PM education is ordinarily performed from the stage of university education overseas. As a result, young and able PM is growing rapidly overseas. Then, the actual condition of overseas PM education and the actual condition of PM education in a few examples of the industry-university cooperation in Japan are investigated, and we considered about the directivity of future PM education.

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In March 2013, the education and publishing committee published the "Introduction to Project Management." This is a beginner's book for first-time students of project management, which describes project management and provides a brief overview on it, to make it easy to understand and learn. Many traditional project management textbooks are knowledge-centered. In contrast, we have tried a basic academic education approach to project management. This primer features both lectures and cases of project management. The author intends this primer to be used as a textbook for third graders. This report summarizes aspects such as the understanding levels and reactions of students.

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It is necessary to foresee the risk affected by situational changes and to manage this risk to ensure the success of a project. The effective examination of a particular risk and the determination of appropriate project actions to manage such a risk require the use of past experience and data. Further, to understand the success or failure of the project and their relation to project details, the data of past EVM was collected in this study. Consequently, this study proposed a method of risk management that considers progress reports based on past data. In addition, it demonstrates a method incorporating proposals and techniques to make the risk management guides applicable to the measurement of the data pertaining to past systems development projects.

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The most common criteria cited for successful projects are delivery time, cost, and quality. Therefore, it is necessary to fulfill these three criteria to ensure a project's success. However, in project planning, the presence of ambiguous conditions and uncertainty imply that fulfilling the aforementioned three criteria do not necessarily assure a high value for customers. This may occur because customers expect improved quality due to additional input resources, and their expectations exceed the pre-determined quality standards. To provide greater project value, management should measure the intrinsic value of the project by benchmarking the degree of achievement against the expectations of stakeholders. This study examines the process of value evaluation that determines the management index of the project based on the stakeholder's expectations.

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In the IT project, the importance of stakeholder management has been attracting attention. On the other hand, the range of stakeholders widely, for PM inexperienced, it is difficult to know what is important. Therefore, we organized to investigate the books and documents that have referred to the stakeholders, whether need to understand what matters. In addition, since the PM on-site to maintain a good relationship with stakeholders, how is the degree to demonstrate the competency of communication skills, we survey. A comparison with PM/IT engineers from overseas and Japanese, the result, a result that will be helpful on the characteristics of the communication was obtained. On the basis of these results, I will be considered a point PM should be taken into account in practice.

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Risk management is a series of activities which identifies preconditions and indefinite matters as risks before a project start, makes action plans to risks, and repeats check & action at the turning point of execution phases. However, in the present age when changes of the environment which surround projects are sharp, it becomes very difficult to identify risks exactly before a project starts. Moreover there is a possibility that an action plan which intended to reduce the influence of certain specific risk may generate another new risk. In spite of that, in risk management activities actually performed, it is common that a new risk of being caused by action plan is not examined. This paper proposes risk management method aimed to be able to analyze risks that will be produced by action plans based on System thinking approach.

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It is necessary to correspond quickly and accuracy in the prospective era name change. However, white the handling of a name of era is various in the financial system, there is case where huge cost time are needed for system correspondence. This report focuses on the estimation process of the system correspondence to era name change, and the measures taken for cost reduction and quality guarantee.

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The industry-academia cooperation is efficient for the education on the project management that depends on manager's experience. As a part of the industry-university cooperation IT personnel training program by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and as a part of the universities cooperation global human resources training program by Hiroshima Prefecture, the joint lecture of Hiroshima Shudo University and Hiroshima City University was realized. All of the lecture were given remotely from another university. This paper describes an overview of the lecture, the view of the subject which became clear through 2013's lecture implementation, solution, and future work.

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From the 1990s, most companies adopt the ERP package when they choose the financial accounting system. The account data which are dealt with the ERP packages are managed as a lot of master data. These master data are one of the important properties of the company, and it is necessary to manage them appropriately. This kind of management method is called MDM (Master Data Management). In this paper, we will introduce a case study which is we are determined the cause of problems which is occurs in the dealing with the master data and the subject which is the quality improvement activity.

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Company's Information system about the financial accounting, production control, sales management, supply and purchase control, business management, personnel affairs and personnel management, payroll calculation, employment management, etc. have not been developed by full-scratch but adopting ERP software packages since the 1990s. Moreover, many researches on the project management in introduction of ERP software packages also exist. Since around 2010, as one of the management measures in our company, we had sought for unifying the information system of group company, promoting standardization of the indirect operating process of group company, and increase in efficiency in the company. Using the ERP software package, however, we reformed the information system about personnel salary/employment management for certain specific group company. Although cutover was on time for delivery in the ERP software package introduction to the group company at the first time by referring the know-how for the project success through paper and literature, the quality was not stabilized and the specification changes occurred successively in the maintenance phase. Then, as a result of performing factor analysis and action planning based on the reflection of the first-time experience, in the ERP software package introduction to 2nd another group company, we were able to improve quality sharply and consider it as the good success project in all aspects of QCD(s). In this paper, we mention the quality improvement activity in introduction of the personnel salary/employment management ERP software package.

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In adult graduate school, seminars and workshops have been aiming at region economical growth. Workshops to allow PM (Project Manager) to exchange and compare their respective experiences are effective in the training of PM. However, if you recruit outside and inside Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology (AIIT) widely, competency and skills of the participants cannot be assessed. Then, inappropriate grouping occurs, and group discussion will not proceed smoothly. Sakamori laboratory of AIIT, has developed a "PM competency evaluation sheet". Workshop participants have responded to this sheet, a workshop was carried out to assess the competency of the participants. We have defined a workshop model at aiming at facilitating participation and involvement of different skilled individuals.

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This paper proposes Project Diffusion Index which takes after BOJ's Diffusion Index broadly used to judge economic condition. It was a typical index in the TANKAN report published quarterly. I explain how to calculate Project Diffusion Index and result of the trial to use the Project Diffusion Index.

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Agile development method has been attracted attention as new software development method in current few years in Japan. However the ratio of applying Agile development method in Japan is still lower than in the U.S. and Western countries. This is because Water whole method has been matured and standardized development method in Japan One of the main reasons seems to be the difficulties of contract management consisting two major types of contract such as full-turn-key with fixed price based general contract and entrusted contract that contractor has no responsibility for outcome. This research shows an effective model of contract for Agile development method observing the contract model called "Information system model of trade contract" by MITI (Minatory of International Trade and Industry) and "A Proposed of Contract Model for Agile Development" by IPS/SEC (Information Processing Society). It also proposed a New Agile Contract model with some article for the contract. It aims to reduce time, cost and uncertainty of quality for contract management on an Agile development project.

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The purpose of this study is to examine the high priority prevention measure of mental health disorder in the project. The tacit knowledge on the prevention of mental health disorder is extracted by the world cafe. The high priority prevention knowledge is specified by the Pareto Analysis. As the results, improving communication and reinforcing teamwork in the project team were obtained as the high priority prevention measure of mental health disorder.

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Among the 9 managements which PMBOK^[○!R] prescribes for project managers to practice, the customer communication management is an important management. There are so many studies on the management mentioned above that Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has been established as its methodology. On the other hand, while many literatures on PM competency for the customer communication management exist, there is none of the literature to edit as methodology. Therefore, we studied the methodology for project managers to manage the customer interaction with kinds of procedure to take and points to be aware in the information system development. In this article, we propose the "OSAKE Method" as methodology for the customer communication management in the information system development.

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The more software development become uncertain, the more risk management activity become great importance. Organizations need to implement risk management activities that match their project management capability and objectives, but most of the organizations fail to implement. In order to build successful implementation of risk management processes, we have developed risk management maturity model. This paper proposes the risk management maturity model and "three actions" to implement better risk management activities. We also present the contents of the e-Learning and guidelines to deploy the essence of those things in our company.

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Nowadays the number of PBL (Project Base Learning) courses at engineering schools is increasing. But students having no experience with a project tend to get astray in their first experience and learn little by joining a project in the course. The key is how to let them prepared to join a project. The method implemented is as follows. First, the selected minimum project management knowledge is given to students. Next, tiny short (about one-week) projects are undertaken repeatedly; in which students may experience failure in apply PM technics. And, finally, students challenge a targeted project to finish in success, which may promote students' motivation to study further on PM. This method was evaluated by the course with 160 students in this spring. The student who had no experience with project now understands the essence of PM technics. And they can now make a project plan, manage own project, and complete it.

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Values that Project deliver is not limited to a deliverable of product or services. Project Management is services which provide tangible and intangible values to stakeholders. Project team is a driving force for delivering the values. Team building approach is crucial factor in achieving the value creation of stakeholders and organization's growth needs. Project manager's intension as well as each project member's expectation is reflected in team building process. Quantifying and qualifying most of time hidden expectations have not been easy especially in areas of team building. This paper presents, adopting services science concept, a methodology of accessing project team culture in objective and quantitative manners. The aim of this is to achieve an effective team building process to satisfy project members as well as organizational needs.

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The small risk of a damage scale chains and being connected to the large risk of a damage scale is regarded as questionable. It is raised as a cause that the risk chain is not recognized. For example, it is performing decision-making mistaken by initial correspondence to a risk. Therefore, it is thought required to analyze the relation of a risk chain. However, it is very difficult to analyze the relation of a risk chain. The purpose of this research is to grasp the connective generating structure of a risk chains and to plan problem solving. Therefore, to perform the selection of the analysis method was applied association rule mining. As a result, the height of the source of a risk chain and the recurrence nature of a risk was able to be discovered from the extracted data. It will be able to prevent the chain of risk caused by human factors projects these results.

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In recent years, the ambiguity of the request definition is concern. As a result, many examples with which a project falls into failure exist. It adversely affected quality, cost, delivery date each targeted for the evaluation of the project, and various actions have been performed. However, it has not resulted in solution of this problem by the requirements analysis method which is in use. Then, data mining is studied as different approach from the requirements analysis which is in use now. It aims at solving the problem that a leak or the hidden demand of user requirements cannot be extracted, by using the data-mining method to the user requirements data of a project in the past. Therefore, to perform the selection of the analysis method was applied association rule mining. As a result, the relationship of various demands was extracted and some unexpected relationship was extracted. A requirement analyst can foresee a user's potential demand from an early stage by using this result from the early stage of the requirements analysis of a similar project. As a result, it can respond also to the addition and change of a requirement which are also the cause of failure of a project.

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Brainstorming (hereinafter referred to as BS) is a method of idea generation used mostly at the place of meeting or discussion. Sasai et.al. Investigated one of four rules of BS "being quantity from quality" quantitatively, and verified positive correlation between the quality and quantity of idea. On the other hand, the real parent of BS, A-F Osborne of BS, reported that an utterance is controlled in front of others. The authors generated a hypothesis that the quality and quantity of idea could be raised further by reducing utterance control (promotion of an utterance). In this research, based on consideration that a mental factor influences utterance control strongly, the authors proposed BS with utilizing action analytics, which is a one system of psychology. As a result of experiment to verify a hypothesis, the quality and the quantity of idea from BS which utilized action analytics were higher than those from usual BS, and so the hypothesis was proved.

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Precedence diagram method includes four types of dependencies, which are Finish to start, Finish to finish, Start to start and Start to finish as logical relationship. In PMBOK, the predecessor (successor) activity is defined as an activity to come before (after) a dependent activity in a schedule. Based on this definition, four types of dependencies in PMBOK are explained definitely logically. However, logical relationship and time relationship do not accord in Start to finish relation. Therefore, in this presentation, author replaces logical relationship of activities with time relationship and priority of activities and then considers a description of four types of dependencies in the precedence diagram method.

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A feature of the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK) guide book is that the data flow started from each management process is described. In previous work, the author has presented that we could visualize the network structure of the project management process based on this data flow. In the PMBOK guide fifth edition, a stakeholder management knowledge area was established newly. In this paper, the author visualizes and considers the structure of the management process network of the PMBOK fifth edition based on Dynamics Network Modelling.

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The number of pages, knowledge areas and processes of the PMBOK^[○!R] Guide-Fifth Edition is the most among the five PMBOK^[○!R] Guides. The concept of the average information is applied to survey the cause of increase in the number of pages, knowledge areas and processes and then the evenness index of knowledge area and process groups in the five PMBOK^[○!R] Guides is calculated. As a result, the relations among the number of pages, knowledge areas and process are made clear in the PMBOK^[○!R] Guide. In addition, the conditional average information of knowledge areas is derived from a priori average information of process groups, so that we can make clear the mutual relation between the average information of knowledge areas and process groups. Therefore, we find that the probability of the average information is very high for the PMBOK^[○!R] Guide-Fifth Edition.

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The risk assessment is one of the critical tasks of the project manager. According to the CEBoK (Cost Estimating Body of Knowledge), which is the knowledge for the cost estimation of the project, the risk assessment would affect much for the cost and schedule estimations. In this paper, we also evaluated the CEBoK methodology based on the actual project experiance using some simulations.

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The opinion information of the user about goods and service which are sold on Web is used for the decision aiding of merchandise purchase, and development of a new product and new service. However, a user's opinion information is evaluated based on evaluation criteria defined in advance, or is description by the free format, and it has been a subject that evaluation which the user needs has not been performed. Using the opinion information in Web, by analyzing user requirements, the new evaluation criteria to a product are generated and reexamination of the viewpoint of evaluation is supported in this research. This will enable to emerge user's demand to the products, and it leads to analysis of user requirements, such as a product development project and support of project performance evaluation.

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PM education to be provided as a method to solve a problem of a request and the education from the society exists. However, it is not even performed in the secondary education. This study paid attention to it and examined 'EdVision-Model' as a method of the solution. 'EdVision-Model' is studied as an education method. However, 'EdVision-Model' is not a curriculum made for the purpose of PM education. Therefore an education effect of the PM education is not checked. Here, the curriculum of the existing PM education was evaluated to the beginning. Furthermore, similarly, comparative evaluation was carried out also about 'EdVision-Model', and it became clear that there is the same effect as 'EdVision-Model'.

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In recent years, in software development, the demand about shortening of a development cycle, reduction of cost, and quality guarantee is becoming stronger than former. Therefore, the difficulty of the project is also high and a project success rate is about 30 percent. Here, it is mentioned that the staff suitable as a factor in which a project fails was not supplied. Generally, it is important to apply competency, in order to guarantee a suitable staff. Although it seems that it is suitable for project staff assignment to manage an entire team by competency, still, the example is not enough. In this research, the improvement method of the human resource management which makes combination of the optimal competency available easily is proposed by typifying the competency of 21.

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Lowering of morale leads to a decrease in the success rate of the project. In order to run a successful project, raising the morale is important. Result of Hawthorne experiment, work efficiency was led may depend largely on the sense of purpose and human relations. Thus, by the target consciousness and human relations in the workplace, as well as motivation of workers, morale of the entire workshop was improved. Morale has an influence on the sense of belonging and human relations in the workplace. However, there are few research findings about the motivation fall by the human relations of a workplace. Thus, this research proposes the investigation and its countermeasure against this motivation fall factor. This contributes to the improvement in a success rate of a project.

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With progress of the Internet, cloud computing attracts attention as important infrastructure also in the company. Here, there are public Cloud, private Cloud, and also hybrid Cloud that combined these in the usage pattern of cloud computing. Generally, the company is wavering from a viewpoint of various risk sides to use of public cloud computing. In this study, in order to contribute to the cost reduction of a company, or Green IT-ization, the risk management of public cloud computing is established, and public Cloud use of a company is promoted. Specifically, the risk at the time of using public cloud computing based on the result of precedence study is shown quantitatively. Specifically, the assurance which is the main countermeasures is applied. Thus, present public Cloud's risk degree is calculated first. Next, public Cloud's risk degree by assurance application is calculated. Public Cloud's risk degree by assurance application became a value close to hybrid Cloud, and these results were able to confirm the effectiveness. By calculating the cost which assurance takes, a future problem clarifies cost effectiveness and contributes to public Cloud's spreading and promotion.

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We completed the development of the platform of the system including 300 servers. In the early stages of the project, the project team has too little data for capacity design to develop the system. To increase constantly the quality of the system after the project and to prepare for the next project to refine the system, we have established capacity management method of the system while executing the project.

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Our quality control of software development has been matured, but we are now developping in terms of making work instructions high quality although we recognise its importance. In this paper I want to report that we had taken measures to solve problems causes manuals.

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Our school recognizes the school festival as a project and implemented project management for the school festival in 2012. This paper reports on how we, high school students, have learned and implemented project management. The report includes what I did as a project manager, and documents which created through the Project Management process of initiate, plan, execution, and close. Also, it is stated how the experience of a project manager has influenced my school days and a future career plan.

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This paper reports the introduction of PBL case in Junior High-school. In addition, it reports that the knowledge and the skills of project management help the project beginners, school teachers and students for the project success.

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Recently, the practical education using Project Based Learning (PBL) is increasing. However, an essential discussion about "what is practical" is not enough. And It is thought that each educational facilities are doing training using each plan. In this research, we thought the communication skill is one of important skill of practical education. So, we focused on the students of science and engineering students taking PBL and researched their communication skill. And we tried to research the relation between communication skill and PBL.

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Following the adoption of probabilistic risk assessment (PRA), which has traditionally been applied to the risk assessment of physical systems like nuclear power plants, chemical plants, railroad facilities, and this study attempts to apply PRA to project management (PM). This paper discusses the quantitative risk assessment by PRA, especially focusing on the case in which quality planning of a project collapsed.

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This paper proposes the management system regarding with town centre districts in the U.K. Especially we look at the risk management system for increase of customer adoption rates in the U.K' town centre as well as its result.

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This paper explains the procurement management techniques that are necessary to make a project succeed amidst prevailing conditions, in which outsourcing is an inseparable part of system development projects. Dealing with ambiguity has become important in the upstream process that will decide the ultimate outcome of a project. The various responses to ambiguity are divided into separate categories, namely, "aversion," "mitigation," "imputation," and "acceptance." In this paper, particularly close attention is paid to the "mitigation" and "imputation" techniques of responding to ambiguity. Specifically, response methods are introduced for each of the main aspects that will determine whether the project succeeds or fails, such as clarification of scope, prior arrangements with vendors, careful selection of vendors, and the appropriate execution of multistage contracts.

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There is an emergence of stakeholders that cannot be predicted in the planning process of a project. The unexpected and existing stakeholders change their nature during the development process. These changes greatly influence the success of the project. IS021500:2012 and PMBOK Guide maintain stable management by updating original plans and monitoring and controlling processes the differences between what was planned in the start and what is happening in reality. Employing a PDCA cycle during the project makes it possible to achieve well-balanced tactics and strategic approaches followed by planning, monitoring and controlling processes. This process is similar to risk management, which discovers hazards and perils and effectively deals with them. When using a strategic approach, it is sometimes difficult to correspond to the changes of stakeholders that were unexpected at the process of planning. It is because the strategic approach starts managing the differences between what was planned and what is happening in the reality only after identifying the changes of stakeholders. It is necessary to include stakeholders that occur during the phase in the PDCA cycle. Changes of existing stakeholders during the progress of the phase should also be taken into a consideration. This study proposes a strategic approach that shows the movement of stakeholders by using a grid model that we developed. This model considers the emergence of new stakeholders and changes of existing stakeholders according to the development process.

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One of the most important subjects for business is to increase total productivity. To implement this, a streamlining of "indirect works" is also necessary besides works directly tied to productivity. Our company has launched a project to engage in improving "indirect works". In this project, positive effects have been obtained by means of reforming a communication model, modifying management processes, and introducing visualization methods. This paper describes efforts made on them and results of their evaluations.

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With growing competitions, companies using cloud computing to reduce IT cost are increasing. However, it is considered that strategic information system supporting execution of company strategy is not fit for cloud com-puting. It's because company specific strategic requirements are included in strategic information system, and also seek special support when using cloud computing. To achieve IT cost reduction, narrow down the specific requirements and integrate the development of specific requirement into the installation work of cloud standard services. Additionally, it is necessary to minimize the impact of joint operation in cloud computing. Valid methodology for achieving cost reduction in the development of strategic information system using cloud com-puting is proposed in this research paper.

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