Development and Verification of an Industry Application to Improve the Project Manager-to-Project (PM2P) Practice
Lone Seboni · 2018
This research is a follow-up from a previous study regarding the development of a mathematical model for allocating project managers-to-projects (PM2P). The aim of the current study is to develop an industry application for the PM2P practice, in the form of a decision support system (DSS), as part of operationalising the mathematical model. Both the depth and breadth of literature surrounding the PM2P practice were appraised and integrated in a creative manner, using concepts from different disciplines, to produce an application customized to the working environment of a specific case organization. Based on real-life input data from the case organization to verify the functionality of the application, the results reveal the robustness and usefulness of the DSS. This study is the first major attempt to propose a novel and integrated industry application that is superior to existing PM2P approaches. This attempt is a contribution to existing knowledge because it addresses the issue of user-friendliness to practitioners for the first time.