• DocumentCode
    3429865
  • Title

    Quality control and risk mitigation: A comparison of project management methodologies in practice

  • Author

    Khoja, Shakeel A. ; Chowdhary, B.S. ; Dhirani, Lubna L. ; Kalhoro, Quratulain

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Comput. Sci., Inst. of Bus. Adm. (IBA), Karachi, Pakistan
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    2-4 Nov. 2010
  • Firstpage
    19
  • Lastpage
    23
  • Abstract
    This paper discusses the comparison of diverse project management methodologies being practiced by global organizations as per their nature, size, scope, environment, diversity and the type of projects. An analysis has been made on IT project management focusing quality and risk issues and management. The basic theme is how different companies manage their projects by comparing quality and risk, and to what extent they use similar methodologies. A further ado is the use of traditional methods and heuristics that is supported at governance and policy level.
  • Keywords
    DP industry; project management; quality control; risk management; IT project management; global organizations; quality control; risk mitigation; Companies; Programming; Project management; Standards organizations; PMBOK; PRINCE2; Project Management; SCRUM;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Education and Management Technology (ICEMT), 2010 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cairo
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8616-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8618-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICEMT.2010.5657555
  • Filename
    5657555