Dealing with Projects in a Dynamic Scenario: New Managing Approaches and User-Centered Tools
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2020) | Viewed by 32551
Special Issue Editors
Interests: project management; life-cycle assessment; sustainable project engineering
Interests: project management; projects for development; project evaluation
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Dear colleagues,
At present, uncertainty, complexity, and change are three challenges that sustainable project management must overcome. Furthermore, new technologies and digital transformation involve the execution of new project typologies, which in many cases have a high degree of technological complexity: Internet of Things, systems oriented to user experience, Industry 4.0, Smart Cities, Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data. Thus, a static and unidimensional definition of the scope of projects is not available anymore. Instead, an open and dynamic life-cycle point of view for project management is demanding new approaches for consistent and sustainable project management. That dynamic scenario encourages new approaches for complexity management, megaprojects, and multiproject management.
Additionally, those approaches are strongly based on new data management technologies, not only for monitoring but mainly for managing stakeholders throughout a changing project life-cycle. The user\s point of view is dynamically incorporated into decision-making processes. Therefore, new tools are needed for simulating, anticipating, and simulating user experience. Applications to improve planning and sustainable management in projects cover a wide range of topics: energy efficiency, ergonomics and biomechanics, 3D visualization, peer to peer solutions, artificial intelligence, etc.
This Special Issue is looking for significant contributions to both project management approaches and user-centered tools.
Dr. Salvador F. Capuz-RizoDr. José L. Yagüe Blanco
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- project management
- multiproject approach
- complexity management
- megaprojects
- efficiency management
- user-centered and user-experience tools
- data management
- dynamic life-cycle management
- stakeholder management
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