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Improving Project Management Practice Through the Development of a Business Case: A Local Administration Case Study

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Trends and Advances in Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'18 2018)

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The identification and implementation of the best practices of project management are preponderant and decisive factors for the success of the companies, regardless of their area of intervention. This highlight arose from the need for companies to respond quickly, efficiently and in an integrated manner to the challenges that an ever-changing environment offers.

In a public transportation company, the challenges should focus on project management improvement initiatives, considering their organizational context and the low level of organizational maturity existing in project management.

The purpose of the research was to develop a solution of a Business Case template that was intended to be integrated into the life cycle of project management of the company under study, transversal to all the areas of knowledge described by PMBoK, having several inputs provided by PRINCE2 and BABOK.

The purpose of the research work was to develop a solution to justify initiatives that lead to projects and ensure a correct management throughout the life cycle of each project.

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  1. Information Systems Department, ALGORITMI Research Centre, School of Engineering, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Fernando Martins, Pedro Ribeiro & Francisco Duarte

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  1. Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  3. DSI/EEUM, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Luís Paulo Reis

  4. DIMES, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

    Sandra Costanzo

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Martins, F., Ribeiro, P., Duarte, F. (2018). Improving Project Management Practice Through the Development of a Business Case: A Local Administration Case Study. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L.P., Costanzo, S. (eds) Trends and Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST'18 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 745. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77703-0_43

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