Although there is a growing influence of psychology and human resources in modern management, this area is being often neglected in theory and particularly in praxis of project management. This area offers a big potential for improvement of performance of project teams and increase of teamwork efficiency. Therefore this thesis is focused on human factor in project management and the opportunity for using psychology, especially the theory of motivation and teamwork. There were set more main goals of thesis they can be split in two groups. In the first group there are research goals aimed on teamwork in project teams managed by agile or traditional methods, establishment of project teams, characteristics of projects suitable for agile approach and implementation of agile methods in a company. The proposal of solution of identified problem areas belongs to the second group of goals. According to the research results agile project teams are closer to psychological concept of team, whilst traditional project teams are closer to work groups. Therefore agile project teams have better potential for being more efficient and performing higher than the project teams managed by traditional methods. Another finding in this thesis is regarding setting up the project teams and their daily work. Although agile methods seem to be more efficient from the teamwork perspective, they don't offer general solution for all problems in project management and their usage is not necessary suitable for all kinds of projects and company environment. That's why the characteristics of appropriate projects for being managed by agile methods were also investigated. Successful implementation and application of agile methods is strongly influenced by company environment and other factors that were identified in theoretical part of the thesis and subsequently verified by the research. The thesis brings a lot of verified information regarding work in project teams and emphasizes the significance of management, motivation and development of project teams. For identified problem areas with significant potential for improvement were prepared two solution proposals included in final parts of the thesis. The first solution is a model for implementation of project methodology in a company; the second one is a model aimed on project team performance increase. Both proposed solutions offers specific tools and techniques ready for application in company environment.

Main goal of this thesis is to provide information about project management quality and possibilities of quality improvement in project management by project postaudit. Other goals are to inform about best practice in project management and project postaudit and to provide manual for project postaudit implementation.

There has been a rapid growth of private participation in infrastructure projects throughout the world in the last three decades. China as the largest developing country in the world has a huge amount of demands for high quality infrastructure projects and public services. The government has actively developed and used the Build-Operation-Transfer (BOT) model to deliver public facilities and services, particularly after 2002. Certain benefits have been brought by the adoption of the BOT model in China's motorway and water sectors. However, issues were also found in the processes behind BOT applications. International organisations as well as scholars suggested that China should learn experiences and lessons from the UK and its PFI scheme. The UK has been the leading country to use private finance in developing public buildings and services. However, very little has been written addressing how lessons from British PFIs can be learnt by China to improve its BOT practice. This study is an attempt to address this vacuum in the existed literature. It was designed to explore the current problems of using BOTs in Chinese motorway and water sectors and looks at what needs to be improved, based upon the PFI lessons in the UK. A mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods has been employed and various methods of data collection used in this study. These included: 21 interviews, 2 observations and one focus group and the analysis on 14 government reports about BOTs in China. The governments' decision-makers, directors, project managers and contractors were involved in the research to explore the results and emerging issues involving the implementation of BOT models in 87 Chinese motorway and water projects in 10 cities covering six provinces. As a result of its findings, the research is able to discuss and identify the relevant experiences and lessons from PFIs in the UK to improve further application of China's BOTs. This study fills the gap in knowledge regarding comparisons between PFIs and BOTs. It also gives recommendations for good practice in relation to Chinese BOT policy decision making, development and evaluation. Finally, the study hopes to give recommendations that enable the implementation of BOT model in Chinese motorway and water sectors to be more successful in the future.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-18T17:54:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MARIA LUISA_25_09_2012.pdf: 1046343 bytes, checksum: 0b209b46f1ea3f482bfeacc41db98d97 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-16 / The purpose of this research was to verify how the public school of basic education is utilizing the results of institutional evaluation in its forms of internal and external evaluation, for improving her management, projects and plans for overcoming her limitations and difficulties in the betterment of teaching quality. For reaching this purpose, the researcher chose a qualitative approach and utilized the proceeding of case study of a public school of the school system of São Paulo State/School Division of Ourinhos Region. For collecting relevant information and perspective of the subjects involved in the research, three instruments were used: observation of school environment, document analysis, and semistructured interview. Members of school segments represented in the School Board (Principal, vice-principal, two coordinators, six teachers, two functionaries, four parents, and four pupils) were subjects of the research. Data analysis revealed significant aspects related to the obstacles in the utilization of relevant information resulting from the external and internal institutional evaluation, for the collective, continuous and effective reflection and for the mobilization of collective actions in the process of elaboration, follow-up and reformulation of the Educative Project, the Management Project, and yearly school plans. The internal and external school self-evaluation should be implemented in a way more coherent with school reality and need and become a pedagogical and political instrument to be utilized, with the school community participation, for the elaboration of her projects and plans of school pedagogical work and for their periodical updating and adaptation to the new historical context of society and school. It became evident that institutional evaluation should become an instrument to be used by the public school of basic education for overcoming her limitations and difficulties in a process which permits to improve her pedagogical practice, thus making possible the improvement of her management, and as a consequence, improving the quality of basic education. / O objetivo desta pesquisa foi verificar como a escola pública de educação básica vem utilizando os resultados da avaliação institucional nas suas formas de avaliação interna e externa para aprimoramento de sua gestão, de seus projetos e planos para superar suas limitações e dificuldades na melhoria do ensino. Para alcançar esse objetivo a pesquisa procedeu por meio de uma abordagem qualitativa e utilizou como procedimento o estudo de caso de uma escola pública de educação básica do sistema estadual de ensino do Estado de São Paulo/Diretoria de Ensino da Região do Ourinhos. Para a coleta das informações relevantes e das perspectivas dos sujeitos da pesquisa, foram utilizadas a observação do ambiente escolar, a pesquisa documental e a entrevista semiestruturada. Foram sujeitos da pesquisa membros dos segmentos escolares representados no Conselho de Escola (diretor, vice-diretor, dois coordenadores, seis professores, dois funcionários, quatro pais e quatro alunos). A análise dos dados coletados revelou aspectos significativos relacionados aos entraves na utilização das informações relevantes resultantes da avaliação institucional interna e externa, para a reflexão coletiva, contínua e efetiva e para a mobilização de ações coletivas no processo de elaboração, acompanhamento e reformulação do Projeto Educativo, do Plano Gestor e dos Planos Anuais escolares. A autoavaliação interna e externa da escola deve ser implementada de maneira mais coerente com a realidade e necessidade da escola e tornar-se uma ferramenta pedagógica e política a ser utilizada, com a participação da comunidade escolar, para a elaboração dos projetos e planos de trabalho pedagógico da escola e para a atualização e adaptação periódica deles aos novos contextos históricos da sociedade e da escola. Ficou evidente que a avaliação institucional deve tornar-se um instrumento a ser utilizado pela escola pública de educação básica para superação de suas limitações e dificuldades num processo que permite aperfeiçoar sua prática pedagógica, possibilitando assim o aprimoramento de sua gestão e, em consequência, melhorando a qualidade da educação básica.

This master thesis deals with the importance of testing of plastic parts in the automotive industry. It defines the basic principles and concepts of project management within product validation, specifies the principles in the corporate environment of ATEK s.r.o. Part of the thesis is the creation of a validation plan and a schedule of labory tests for the selected product from the BMW AG G20 project. The work defines the conditions and the execution of selected tests, eg the climate change test according to the BMW standard PR303.5. The tests are then evaluated. The output from the evaluation is a product optimization proposal.

Diplomová práce se zaměřuje na vybrání a aplikaci metod a nástrojů projektového management ve strojírenském podniku. První část práce se zaměřuje na teoretické poznatky. Druhá část je analýza současného stavu podniku a průmyslu. Třetí část je autorův návrh, který je vytvořen na základě předchozích dvou kapitol.

This diploma thesis deals with establishing a new sales portfolio named ZaseRýže Clothing from ZaseRýže company. The theoretical part of the thesis includes definition of terms from the field of strategic analysis and project management. The analysis of the current situation of the surroundings and inside the company was carried out in the analytical section. In the design part is elaborated a plan for project realization using project management methodology.

This paper addresses a new conceptual framework for a communitybased project management learning model that aims to support learning within a project and enhance the distribution of knowledge within a particular virtual community. This model also aims to develop a virtual community of doctoral students, who can manage their own projects online with other community members who have the same interest. In order to develop that model, a checklist of community-based project management process has been developed in the light of the literature review and the needs of stakeholders (doctoral students and researchers). Within this model, community-based project management includes three main elements: community, project and management. In relation to project, there are two main sub elements. First is projectbased learning (PBL), which is based on constructivist perspective of learning that make students construct their knowledge when they work together to accomplish specific goals. Second is the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK), which is a project management guide, and an internationally recognized standard [PMBOK Guide, 2004], that provides the fundamentals of project management as they apply to a wide range of projects, including construction, software, engineering, automotive, so the study deploy this approach to scaffold based project management learning model. In the terms of the community element, this study adopted the community of inquiry model, which defines a good e-learning environment through three major aspects: cognitive presence, social presence and teaching presence. The last element which is addressed in this study called knowledge management. After identifying these elements, this study investigates a range of tools in the light of this model. The study analyses six different learning and content management systems (OPAL, Moodle, Joomla, e107, ZMS and TUDWCMS) in order to find out tool(s) that is/are sufficient for implementing the suggested study model.

This thesis is devoted to management of construction contract and the thesis is divided into two parts – theoretical and practical. The theoretical part is focused on familiarizing with some concepts of project management, cost control, time management and risk management. At the end of the theoretical part, there are described types of construction of a family house. Practical part involves applying these principles on the example of the particular construction work contract. It also describes and analyzes organization of construction contract and together with risk management meets the appointed target. The desired output of theses is processing of necessary documents for the management of specific construction contract by house raising.

The aim of diploma thesis is to describe and analyze organization of construction contract at the specific construction company. Introduction contains summary of theoretical knowledge, followed by construction order preparation on general level. The practical part contains application on specific construction contract.