Developing project managers are common issues in each organization. The projects currently curried out have strongly been demanded shorter time-to-market and lower cost. It is seemed that educating project managers by OJT, that has been effective so far, have limitations in the viewpoint of human resource and time to be taken. There are a lot of situations that needs project manager's timely decision depending on each condition, and the issues concerning educating project managers will not be resolved by acquiring only the necessary knowledge. It is very important for project managers to acquire both the fundamental ways of thinking and the best action it should be taken in a situation. Mentoring is one of the best techniques to acquire not only knowledge but also know-hows and the competency by receiving a lot of suggestions from the mentor. In this paper, more effective execution scheme of mentoring is described.

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Our company aimed at achievement of quality solution offer which a visitor can satisfy, and the business goal, accumulated the information which a project needs as a process asset for the purpose of reuse of project practice know-how, and has built and employed the structure which shares it between the whole company. We offer a process asset, about two years pass, and employment is also being established. In this paper, we introduce the result evaluated about the usefulness of the process asset library which is a part of process asset.

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It is possible that internal factors like review of specification or external ones like revision of governmental system necessitate changes in activities of a project. This article will introduce an approach applied to an actual project with focus on importance of the Integrated Change Control, result of the approach, and consideration about it.

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Due to the recent focus and promotion on Project Management, many companies are trying to implement corporate-wide PM disciplines, so called Enterprise PM (EPM) and its supporting agent-Project Management Office (PMO). To improve PM maturity in corporate level, it is critical to improve PM capability for organizations which are critical part of conducting day to day business operation, in addition to enhancing PM competency for project management professionals. In this paper, I will summarize the corporate-wide PM initiatives which was started since 1990s to improve PM capability in IBM corporation and then introduce organizational PM maturity assessment and lessons learned through these implementation, categorizing characteristics of organizations and consideration of PM implementation for these organizations.

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Due to the recent reduction of the mainframe by downsizing of a computer system, it is increased that many computer hardware maintenance companies entered to IT solution service market and want it be an another key business of the company. In such a company, various problems related to the project management whole of each person's management skill and in-house system side, etc. have occurred in the revolution that aims at the achievement of the project type business for offering value of satisfying to the requested specification customer made. We Hitachi Electronics Services Co., Ltd., also thought that 'project management ability empowerment' was an indispensable subject consequently, for the enterprise quality strengthening. As a result, our company began the personnel training related to the project management in 2001. Moreover, an in-house system that relates to the project management was started up in 2003, and established of the system has been aimed at after 2004. In this paper, the contents of the activity for two years in 2003 and afterwards and the results are reported.

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The expectation for medical treatment has been changing from "quantity" to "quality". This is accelerated by enforcement of the Reconstruction of the Public Medical Care System and the progress of aged society. Especially, the progress of aged society brings the epidemiologic transition, and it changes the general requirement for medical services. Under these changes of environment, improving the efficiency, the cost, and the quality of a medical services are required to realize the patient satisfaction is needed and to realize the continuous management of hospital In this paper, the management of hospitalization process is considered as one of the applications of project management. One of the results of consideration shows that the hospitalization is consisted as a project that is consisted of a few tasks. Furthermore, the hospitalization process is analyzed in order to find out the bottleneck for the successful hospitalization. The result of a case study shows the application of project management about the establishment of hospitalization goal, of control of a hospitalization period and of communication management among medical staffs.

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The process from diagnosis to treatment in medical care is optimized by the feedback loop as collecting Subjective or Objective information (Check), Assessment (Act), Plan (Plan), and execution of treatment (Do). This feedback loop (POS: Problem Oriented System) is same as project management cycle (ex. PDCA cycle). It becomes a dynamic index where the rotation number and speed in this feedback loop (POS) show the quality of medical care.

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In the societal environment, there are strong demands to have hand in the public planning. As information technology advances, it is one of most important theme to build a political system that can manage manpower on a different standpoint with the help of system tools and can sort out alternatives by mutual consent. Especially, in public management, the studies on the team building method for scope management are not enough. This paper describes a study on the socio-nodding method of working-project formation for scope definition.

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For smooth and successful project implementation, knowledge sharing is important for project members to accumulate knowledge and know-how and share them with each other across projects. In a knowledge sharing system, however, there is a trade-off between an improvement of information retrieval accuracy and a reduction of information entry cost, which causes a disuse of the system. In this paper, we propose a knowledge sharing system for system engineers which has two characteristics: (1) a policy that document gate-keepers accumulate and manage documents and (2) a function to directly browse relevant documents across categories. This system reduced retrieval operation steps and document entry cost.

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Business without IT is no longer considered by penetration of IT in companies. Under this circumstance, the number of system development is also increasing rapidly, and project managers are proceeding projects struggling through many problems, such as risks and communication. Recently, we collected practical know-how on project execution from project management experience of many predecessors, and tried to arrange and integrate it with the system of PMBOK. This paper introduces measures of strengthening project management, in which the know-how is built up and opened on the web and had been motto for the project managers.

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