Challenges and Opportunities in Developing Project Management Decision-Making Tools

Abstract

Including sustainability criteria for making decisions in project management poses challenges in the areas of bioenergy, biotherapeutics, and biomaterials. This is mainly due to chemical heterogeneity of bio-based materials, technoeconomic feasibility, and triple constraint of time, cost, and product quality. However, bio-based technologies create opportunities as sustainable processes because they involve upvaluation of locally available renewable and biodegradable materials. This work was conducted to identify challenges and opportunities in incorporating project management tools in bioproduct development with the goal of integrating measurable sustainability criteria scores in decision-making. The scores or metrics from these tools can be used by project managers for decision-making in engineering process scale-up, evaluation of social impact, and commercialization of processing technologies.

Exploring lean office in project management by means of a systematic literature review

“…These factors lead the projects to fail in a rate between 40% and 86% to respect its constraints, which causes loss of time, not respect scope and indeed loss of money (Rogers, 2019;Mladenova, 2019;PMI, 2021). Project managers are often influenced by subjectivism, wrong information, inefficient communication, relying on intuition drawn from experience, poor investment on their competences and due these factors, the decision making can be biased as well as the allocation of resources (Biedenbach and M€ uller, 2011;Aguda et al, 2021;Tsiga and Emes, 2021;Arraiza Irujo and P erez Ezcurdia, 2017;Kim et al, 2022). One way to cope properly with the projects is to constantly communicate with the clients/stakeholders about the scope changes (knowing scope management as occurring all along the full project cycle), having connection between projects and the company's key strategic priorities, controlling the cost of the project and training the team (Almeida et al, 2020;Tariq et al, 2020;Al-Tmeemy and Al Bassam, 2018;Goncalves and Figueiredo, 2008;Fossum et al, 2019;Jin et al, 2018;Lappe and Spang, 2014).…”