Minimizing average project team size given multi-skilled workers with heterogeneous skill levels

Walter, Matthias; Zimmermann, Jürgen

doi:10.1016/j.cor.2015.11.011

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“…Therefore, an important issue has been addressed but is neglected by organizational studies despite the fact that it has been proved that hyperlinked employees are similar to opinion leaders and become prominent sources in solving uncertainties, diminishing the risks, and diffusing innovations (Hu, 2013). Nevertheless, it offers a potential solution as to how work-teams can be established, by complementing the elements highlighted by Walter and Zimmermann (2015).…”

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Social network analysis: A tool for evaluating and predicting future knowledge flows from an insurance organization

Leon

Rodríguez-Rodríguez

Gómez-Gasquet

et al. 2017

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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The paper aims to identify the individuals who influence the knowledge sharing processes from an internal social network and to forecast the future knowledge flows that may cross it. Exploratory research is employed, and a four-phase methodology is developed which combines a social network analysis with structural modeling. This is applied to the internal enterprise social network used by a British insurance company. The main results emphasize the most influential groups, their relationships, future knowledge flows, and the connection between the network's heterogeneity and structure, and employees' future knowledge sharing intention. These findings have both theoretical and practical implications. The theory is extended by proving that a social network analysis can be used as a tool for evaluating and predicting future knowledge flows. At the same time, a solution is offered to decision-makers so they will be able to: (i) identify the potential knowledge loss; (ii) determine leaders; (iii) establish who is going to act as a knowledge diffuser, by sharing what they know with their co-workers, and who is going to act as a knowledge repository, by focusing on acquiring increasingly more knowledge; (iv) identify the elements that influence employees' future knowledge sharing intention.

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Section: Theoretical Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social network analysis: A tool for evaluating and predicting future knowledge flows from an insurance organization

Leon

Rodríguez-Rodríguez

Gómez-Gasquet

et al. 2017

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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“…We conclude that the most realistic case occurs if resources can only be influenced by other resources that perform the same skill, as was intended in Heimerl and Kolisch (2010) , Kolisch and Heimerl (2012) and Walter and Zimmermann (2016) . Therefore, we have chosen to incorporate version 2 in our paper.…”

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“…A d i equal to 0.5 will result in an adjusted processing time that is twice as long as the standard processing time. Version 2 (average depth per skill with reciprocal relation): The relation between the depth d jk and the adjusted processing time p a i is slightly different in the papers of Heimerl and Kolisch (2010) , Kolisch and Heimerl (2012) and Walter and Zimmermann (2016) . In these papers the skill requirements r unit i j are represented in workload units and a resource k performing a skill j only has an impact on the required workload of skill j.…”

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A new algorithm for resource-constrained project scheduling with breadth and depth of skills

Snauwaert

Vanhoucke

2021

European Journal of Operational Research

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“…Project costing is a critical management skill, whereby a project manager is considered to be responsible to deliver the software within the scheduled time and cost while satisfying customer needs and wants. Hence, the best arrangement in terms of a software team member's cost and expertise are essentials factors in project management success (18). This study elaborates this importance by using a quantitative approach.…”

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The Impact of Agile Methodologies and Cost Management Success Factors: An Empirical Study

Iqbal¹

2019

Baghdad Sci.J

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Software cost management is a significant feature of project management. As such, it needs to be employed in a project or line of work. Software cost management is integral to software development failures, which, in turn, cause software failure. Thus, it is imperative that software development professionals develop their cost management skills to deliver successful software projects. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of cost management success factors with project management factors and three agile methodologies -Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and Kanban methodologies which are used in the Pakistani software industry. To determine the results, the researchers applied quantitative approach through an extensive survey on 52 agile software development companies in Pakistan. Statistical techniques, such as Pearson's correlation and mean and standard deviation were performed to examine the results. Following this analysis, we found that cost management has a positive effect on other project management factors, which are schedule, scope, risk, resources, and quality. Furthermore, it is determined that, in general, Kanban performed better than both, Scrum and XP in the context of project management factors.

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Minimizing average project team size given multi-skilled workers with heterogeneous skill levels

Cited by 31 publications

References 42 publications

Social network analysis: A tool for evaluating and predicting future knowledge flows from an insurance organization

Social network analysis: A tool for evaluating and predicting future knowledge flows from an insurance organization

A new algorithm for resource-constrained project scheduling with breadth and depth of skills

The Impact of Agile Methodologies and Cost Management Success Factors: An Empirical Study

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