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An Analysis of IT Project Management Across Companies in an International Scenario

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2018)

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With the growing recognition of the importance of Project Management (PM), new solutions are still researched to improve PM practices in environments where there is a restriction on the project types. PM is becoming more widespread in business and academia but without enough information about the course of actions to be taken to archive success. This is principally true in the IT sector where the impact of new technologies is felt faster than in any other areas. This present study reviews the actual state of IT project management based on an online survey that we conducted with worldwide companies. Our aim is to provide insights and recommendations on how to increase the projects’ success rate based on the results of the survey analysis.

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The CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico - “National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development”) and the University of Regina support this work. The University of Regina Ethics Board had approved this work through the certificate posted on https://goo.gl/OOYZHj.

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    Paulo Roberto Martins de Andrade & Samira Sadaoui

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de Andrade, P.R.M., Sadaoui, S. (2018). An Analysis of IT Project Management Across Companies in an International Scenario. In: Larrucea, X., Santamaria, I., O'Connor, R., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 896. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97925-0_8

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