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Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering / Stephen A. Dyer / Steven Warren / Embedded systems control nearly every device we encounter. Examples abound: appliances, scientific instruments, building environmental controls, avionics, communications, smart phones, and transportation subsystems. These embedded systems can fail in various ways: performance, safety, and meeting market needs. Design errors often cause failures in performance or safety. Market failures, particularly delayed schedule release or running over budget, arise from poor processes. Rigorous methods can significantly reduce the probability of failure. Industry has produced and widely published “best practices” that promote rigorous design and development of embedded systems. Unfortunately, 20 to 35% of development teams do not use them, which leads to operational failures or missed schedules and budgets. This dissertation increases the potential for success in designing and developing embedded systems through the following: 1. It identifies, through literature review, the reasons and factors that cause teams to avoid best practices, which in turn contribute to development failures. 2. It provides a framework, as a psychologically unbiased mediator, to help teams institute best practices. The framework is both straightforward to implement and use and simple to learn. 3. It examines the feasibility of both crowdsourcing and the Delphi method to aid, through anonymous comments on proposed projects, unbiased mediation and estimation within the framework. In two separate case studies, both approaches resulted in underestimation of both required time and required effort. The wide variance in the surveys’ results from crowdsourcing indicated that approach to not be particularly useful. On the other hand, convergence of estimates and forecasts in both projects resulted when employing the Delphi method. Both approaches required six or more weeks to obtain final results. 4. It develops a recommendation model, as a plug-in module to the framework, for the build-versus-buy decision in design of subsystems. It takes a description of a project, compares designing a custom unit with integrating a commercial unit into the final product, and generates a recommendation for the build-versus-buy decision. A study of 18 separate case studies examines the sensitivity of 14 parameters in making the build-versus-buy decision when developing embedded systems. Findings are as follows: team expertise and available resources are most important; partitioning tasks and reducing interdependence are next in importance; the quality and support of commercial units are less important; and finally, premiums and product lifecycles have the least effect on the cost of development. A recommendation model incorporates the results of the sensitivity study and successfully runs on 16 separate case studies. It shows the feasibility and features of a tool that can recommend a build-or-buy decision. 5. It develops a first-order estimation model as another plug-in module to the framework. It aids in planning the development of embedded systems. It takes a description of a project and estimates required time, required effort, and challenges associated with the project. It is simple to implement and easy to use; it can be a spreadsheet, a Matlab model or a webpage; each provides an output like the model for the build-versus-buy decision.

The diploma thesis focuses on optimization of the current project management in the non-profit organization. It assesses compliance with the seven principles of project management according to the PRINCE2 methodology. The overall objective of the thesis is to implement project management tools in the non-profit company.

Diploma thesis is focused on the PRINCE2 methodology, which has been developed based on the needs of the British government for project management and after that it is applied to the needs of a private Czech company. There are described the basic features of the methodology, which are major benefits for the project management. On practical preparation is demonstrated the possibility of adapting the methodology on a practical elaboration to the specifics of a certain project and there are attached the drawn up project documents.

The thesis deals with a capital project in preparation of an existing manufacturing company. It evaluates profitability of the investment based on methods of investment efficiency assessment. The thesis utilizes an analysis of company’s financial health. Its goal is to assess the analysed company’s readiness for the planned investment. Individual methods are evaluated at the end of the paper, based on which further steps are recommended to the company.

Title: Development of the project "Volleyball imagined differently" Objectives: The main goal of the diploma thesis is to design a project plan which could that could be immediately applied and implemented. The partial goal of the diploma thesis is to create a background for the project plan, or rather put together a comprehensive concept of a recruitment type project including its name and basic parameters, logo, benefits, solutions and financing, which implementation could lead up to increase of the membership base of mini- volleyball in the Czech Republic,. Methods: Methodologically, the diploma work is based on qualitative research of data in the form of qualitative in-depth questioning, specifically semi-structured interviews with open questions, conducted on five respondents. The aim of the interviews was to find out how the project "Come play hockey" was build and how works, including the recruitment event "Week of hockey", and for another to find out the possibilities of accepting a recruitment type of project in a volleyball environment in the Czech Republic. For the purpose of these findings, the author of the project "Come play hockey" and the organizer of the recruitment event "Week of hockey", respectively the head of the Department of Promotion and Media at the Czech Volleyball...

The main goal of this diploma thesis is the creation of the bases for the project realization with the output in the form of the web portal for disabled fellow - citizens and people with special needs, e.g. elderly, foreigners etc. Mentioned bases form especially the analytic part of the project and description and realization of the most activities, which are in some way related to the work of the analyst. One of the most important contributions of this diploma thesis is the identification of the issue of disabled people, the identification of current available significant and germane information within the framework and especially the proposal and recommendation for developing the present situation. This diploma thesis forms finally the indispensable benefit for resolution of the whole project, because it contains its substantial part. The thesis is divided into several comprehensive and connected blocks. There are the main goals and reasons leading to choosing this subject described in the introduction, as well as the premises and limitations of realization of this diploma thesis. The author continues with identification of the information needs of possible portal users, whereas the emphasis is placed on the status and number of disabled citizens in the Czech Republic. Another important part of this thesis is the construction and description of the project plan, which includes the activities and occurrences needed for the realization of the overall solution. The remaining structure of the thesis is determined by a sequence of phases and activities described in the project plan. The evaluation of achieved goal's levels and detail identification of the contributions is made at the close of this diploma thesis.

The diploma thesis deals with informatization of public administration and eGovernment in the Czech Republic. The main objective of the thesis is to suggest a project plan that will support informatization of public administration and eGovernment in accordance to the analyzed documents. The thesis compares development of informatization within Czech Republic and its level of eGovernment to other European Union members with recommendations for improvement. Main strategic documents connected with EU programs and the partnership agreement are also included. In the chapter about Smart Administration appraisal of the situation is carried out and the main projects are presented. As we are currently at the turn of the programming period, the thesis is focused both on the 2007-2013 and 2014-2020 programming period. Subsequently requirements for the project plan were determined in accordance to the analyzed documents. The selected project plans support the informatization of the public administration and one of their main targets is Czech citizen. Project plan form is created. Finally, project plans of Electronic elections system and The Public administration's open data catalog is chosen and presented.

Management of the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University considers opening a pre-school child care facility in a new seat of the faculty. The intention of this diploma work is to map and analyze legal forms of pre-school child care, needs of parents - employees and students of the faculty, and financial sources from which such facility could be funded; and then on the base of the analysis to design a solution suitable for the faculty. The solution has a form of a project plan, which, when approved, could be worked up and realized. Data needed for the project plan were gathered via analysis of documents, i.e. legal rules and web pages, and a questionnaire among employees and students of the faculty. According to the survey and in the case of available sufficient financial coverage, it would be ideal to establish at the faculty a facility with two children groups, each consisting of 15 children and a special children area of a 12 children capacity.

Detta examensarbete syftar till att ta fram ett produktförslag för att utveckla en batteridriven omrörare som saknas på marknaden. Målet med projektet var att skapa en självverkande omrörare som underlättar arbetet i köket genom att effektivisera och förenkla matlagningen när det kommer till omrörning av livsmedel i kastruller och liknande. Produkten är utformad för att bidra till tidsbesparingar och förbättra den ergonomiska upplevelsen i köket. Genom att följa produktutvecklingsprocessen har fyra olika koncept utvecklats och utforskats. Efter en noggrann utvärdering valdes det mest lovande konceptet för att gå vidare med. Konceptet representerar vår vision om en innovativ och användarvänlig omrörare som kan revolutionera köksarbete. Fokus i projektet har varit att skapa en hållbar produkt som kombinerar funktionalitet, prestanda och enkel användning. Resultatet av detta examensarbete blev en självverkande omrörare som presenteras med illustrationer av CAD modelleringen och beskrivning av produkten. Moderna tekniker och material användes för att uppnå en hög kvalitet och lång livslängd på produkten. Med hjälp av datorbaserade applikationer har utseendet på produkten visualiserats för att ge en tydligare bild av dess estetiska egenskaper. Dessutom har vi beaktat miljöaspekter genom att minimera energiförbrukningen och säkerställa en effektiv användning av batteriet. / This thesis aims to produce a product proposal to develop a battery-powered stirrer, which at this time is unavailable on the market. The goal of the project is to create an automatic self-acting stirrer that facilitates work in the kitchen by streamlining and simplifying cooking when it comes to stirring food in pots and the like. The product is designed to contribute to time saving and improve the ergonomic experience in the kitchen. By following the product development process, four different concepts were developed and explored. After careful evaluation, we chose the most promising concept to move forward with. The concept represents our vision of an innovative and user-friendly mixer that can revolutionize kitchen work. The focus of the project has been to create a sustainable product that combines functionality, performance and ease of use. The result of this thesis was a self-acting stirrer which is presented with illustrations of CAD modeling and description of the product. Modern techniques and materials were used to achieve a high quality and sustainable product. With the help of specified computer applications, the appearance of the product has been visualized to give a clearer picture of its aesthetic properties. In addition, we have considered environmental aspects by minimizing energy consumption and ensuring efficient use of the battery.