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The present survey study aims at investigating and comparing risk indices in highway and freeway projects implemented through Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) and Design-Bid-Build (DBB) delivery methods. In this regard, two distinct questionnaires were developed (one for BOT and one for DBB delivery method) and interviews were conducted, too. The questionnaires were, then, sent to the target population, i.e. all the experts and agents involved in highway and freeway construction projects implemented through either BOT or DBB method. The collected data were then submitted to Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 22.00, to be analyzed. The results showed that risks had generally... 

Knowledge is an organization asset that if used in the direction of organization’s strategic mission, can provide values for the organization. Therefore, many organizations such as NASA, Siemens; and Microsoft have invested in order to improve their knowledge management practices. Many organizations have not been successful in implementing appropriate knowledge management and incurred by huge expenses, while others can use and improve their locations among their competitors in the business. The reason behind many of these organizations were ignoring factor(s) that have direct undeniable effect on result from organization’s knowledge management.
The framework of knowledge management is a... 

The Study of antecedents and considering the status of Project-Based Organizations (PBOs) in our country such as MSA, Azarab, Sadad Machine, etc indicates that they are facing lots of problems in different aspects. This bad situation is in a way that amendment of part of sections guarantees the continuity of bad performance of these companies and we have to apply Business Process Reengineering and establishing a radical change in these firms. So the present research according to managers and experts opinions, several year observations of the writer and review of the literature of BPR, Project Management (PMBOK) and PBOs; and based on a library research, introduces the processes of PBOs in 3... 

PMBOK is a standard that is the subset of Project Management Knowledge and includes all areas. ITIL is a framework that allows IT organizations using best practices in IT Service Management. Both of them includes some process that during implementation and execution should act based on them. The goal of developing a methodology for implementing ITIL V3 based on PMBOK is executing a comparison mapping for connecting these two difference fields. IT managers know about ITIL implementation, but most of project managers are not familiar about it. If we guess that implementing ITIL V3 is a project, a project manager can do it based on PMBOK. With mapping these two fields, project managers are able... 

This thesis represents results of research about portfolio, program and project management maturity level in South Pars Projects’ contractor organizations. The purpose is to develop an understanding of management maturity regarding these three levels and especially project management in these organizations. Since oil and gas projects have major role in our economy, doing such appraisals cause cost deduction and increasing productivity in these organizations. In this research, contractor organizations and samples from South Pars Projects have been chosen, and then based on P3M3 and Wysocki Maturity Models, which is based on PMBOK standard, and by using their questionnaires appraisal has been... 

Project Management has clearly designed to achieve a successful outcome of the projects. However, without a proper practicing, it might convey a different result. Companies are increasingly using organizational project management in their work to achieve company goals. The purpose of this study is to identify the challenges in Iran for successful implementation of directorial patterns based on the PMBoK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) and PRINCE2 (PRojects IN Controlled Environment-2nd Version). This paper presents the results of a study aiming at investigating the impacts of implementing project management processes of PMBOK and PRINCE2 and themes within Iranian construction... 

Embedded system Project management , because of lots of unstable parameters in design and also diversity of the technical knowledge ,requires a complex and agile project management methodology. Whereas in these projects , different knowledge fields are applied (such as electronics ,telecommunication ,control and robotics) and software is an evitable part of these systems ,project managers can not be familiar with all aspects of the technical and professional in deep manner. Considering that usually ,the project managers of such projects are elected from professionals of hardware or mechanical sections and not in deep inception of software project management , this thesis focus on a new model... 

Risk is an uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, has a positive or negative effect on a project’s objectives. Identification and assessment of risk in a measurable way are so important for project managers to decide better. This thesis studies how to identify and assess the project’s risks in Fishery industry based on the Project management body of knowledge (PMBOK 2008) as a global standard. Constructing an aquaculture site in Abadan city has some risks which are identified in the first steps of the study and in the following steps these risks will be prioritized by the use of qualitative analysis and figured out which risks have major effects on projects objectives. In last step...