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Akintola Akintoye - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Construction Programme management skills and competencies: a deeper insight
2011Co-Authors: Zayyana Shehu, Akintola AkintoyeAbstract:Programme management involves the alignment; coordination and execution of a portfolio of Construction projects to achieve certain benefits that are not always possible if the projects are managed individually. Programmes have always been complex in nature, with the potential for intense cross-project integration, conflicting stakeholders and socio-econo-political pressures. Any problems from one project automatically affect others in the Programme. With this high level of synergy and integration, Programmes require highly skilled and competent managers to ensure that they are operated and delivered successfully. The complexity of Programmes, and their roots in project management, brings about pressure for the managers to think and rethink, search and research, and view and review, for skills and competencies that can put them at the top of their demanding jobs. The findings in this research were achieved through a triangulation of literature review, industrial questionnaire survey, and semi-structured interviews conducted with Programme management experts. The paper offers a critical review and an analysis of the skills and competencies required by Programme managers to effectively discharge their responsibilities. The number of skills and competencies was reduced and categorised using factor analysis for the ease of administration and training by managers and educators.
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Major challenges to the successful implementation and practice of Programme management in the Construction environment: A critical analysis
International Journal of Project Management, 2010Co-Authors: Zayyana Shehu, Akintola AkintoyeAbstract:For the Construction industry to survive the current turbulence in the economic atmosphere, it has the option of integrating new initiatives to march the uncertainties. Programme management is seen as an efficient vehicle to successfully deliver the improvements and changes. However, the implementation of any new system or change initiatives has always been a challenging task; some of these challenges can be faced during the implementation or at practice stage. Programme management is not exempt from such challenges, in order to successfully implement and practice Programme management, the knowledge of the major challenges associated to effective implementation and practice should not be left to serendipity or sagacity. Due to the lack of clarity surrounding Programme management in the Construction industry, the understanding of these major challenges remains vague. To provide a deeper insight into the major challenges to implementation and practice of Construction Programme management, this paper conducts both a pragmatic and theoretical study by triangulating literature, industrial questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews. The research was conducted in the UK Construction industry and other Programme management sectors to analyse and exploit the knowledge of these challenges for effective implementation and practice of Construction Programmes. A total of 119 usable questionnaires were received and 17 semi-structured interviews were conducted, analysed and synthesised to provide a broader view on the major challenges and how to effectively implement and practice Construction Programmes.
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Construction Programme management theory and practice: Contextual and pragmatic approach
International Journal of Project Management, 2009Co-Authors: Zayyana Shehu, Akintola AkintoyeAbstract:The combination of the economic pressures, maturity and limitations of project management and the dynamic nature of the Construction industry clients’ requirements has triggered the need for the adoption and implementation of Programme management as a de facto means of aligning, coordinating and managing a portfolio of Construction projects to deliver benefits that would not be achievable if the projects were managed independently. Despite the benefits achievable in the practice of Programme management, the awareness and understanding of its practice in the Construction industry remains vague as a result of a lack of clarity and inconsistencies associated with its definitions. To fully understand the core essence of Programme management, it is imperative that its quintessential definition, practice and context are clearly understood and documented. This research is based on a pragmatic synthesis of literature review and industrial questionnaire survey which establishes the relationship, similarities and differences between Programme management and project management and subsequently draws comparisons of the practices relevant to Programmes between Programme and non-Programme organisations. The research further highlights the implications of unawareness and lack of understanding that can affect the effective implementation and practice of Programme management in the UK Construction environment.
Zayyana Shehu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Construction Programme management skills and competencies: a deeper insight
2011Co-Authors: Zayyana Shehu, Akintola AkintoyeAbstract:Programme management involves the alignment; coordination and execution of a portfolio of Construction projects to achieve certain benefits that are not always possible if the projects are managed individually. Programmes have always been complex in nature, with the potential for intense cross-project integration, conflicting stakeholders and socio-econo-political pressures. Any problems from one project automatically affect others in the Programme. With this high level of synergy and integration, Programmes require highly skilled and competent managers to ensure that they are operated and delivered successfully. The complexity of Programmes, and their roots in project management, brings about pressure for the managers to think and rethink, search and research, and view and review, for skills and competencies that can put them at the top of their demanding jobs. The findings in this research were achieved through a triangulation of literature review, industrial questionnaire survey, and semi-structured interviews conducted with Programme management experts. The paper offers a critical review and an analysis of the skills and competencies required by Programme managers to effectively discharge their responsibilities. The number of skills and competencies was reduced and categorised using factor analysis for the ease of administration and training by managers and educators.
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Major challenges to the successful implementation and practice of Programme management in the Construction environment: A critical analysis
International Journal of Project Management, 2010Co-Authors: Zayyana Shehu, Akintola AkintoyeAbstract:For the Construction industry to survive the current turbulence in the economic atmosphere, it has the option of integrating new initiatives to march the uncertainties. Programme management is seen as an efficient vehicle to successfully deliver the improvements and changes. However, the implementation of any new system or change initiatives has always been a challenging task; some of these challenges can be faced during the implementation or at practice stage. Programme management is not exempt from such challenges, in order to successfully implement and practice Programme management, the knowledge of the major challenges associated to effective implementation and practice should not be left to serendipity or sagacity. Due to the lack of clarity surrounding Programme management in the Construction industry, the understanding of these major challenges remains vague. To provide a deeper insight into the major challenges to implementation and practice of Construction Programme management, this paper conducts both a pragmatic and theoretical study by triangulating literature, industrial questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews. The research was conducted in the UK Construction industry and other Programme management sectors to analyse and exploit the knowledge of these challenges for effective implementation and practice of Construction Programmes. A total of 119 usable questionnaires were received and 17 semi-structured interviews were conducted, analysed and synthesised to provide a broader view on the major challenges and how to effectively implement and practice Construction Programmes.
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Construction Programme management theory and practice: Contextual and pragmatic approach
International Journal of Project Management, 2009Co-Authors: Zayyana Shehu, Akintola AkintoyeAbstract:The combination of the economic pressures, maturity and limitations of project management and the dynamic nature of the Construction industry clients’ requirements has triggered the need for the adoption and implementation of Programme management as a de facto means of aligning, coordinating and managing a portfolio of Construction projects to deliver benefits that would not be achievable if the projects were managed independently. Despite the benefits achievable in the practice of Programme management, the awareness and understanding of its practice in the Construction industry remains vague as a result of a lack of clarity and inconsistencies associated with its definitions. To fully understand the core essence of Programme management, it is imperative that its quintessential definition, practice and context are clearly understood and documented. This research is based on a pragmatic synthesis of literature review and industrial questionnaire survey which establishes the relationship, similarities and differences between Programme management and project management and subsequently draws comparisons of the practices relevant to Programmes between Programme and non-Programme organisations. The research further highlights the implications of unawareness and lack of understanding that can affect the effective implementation and practice of Programme management in the UK Construction environment.
Oliver Vanden Eynde - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Building connections: Political corruption and road Construction in India
Journal of Development Economics, 2018Co-Authors: Jonathan Lehne, Jacob Shapiro, Oliver Vanden EyndeAbstract:Politically-driven corruption is a pervasive challenge for development, but evidence of its welfare effects are scarce. Using data from a major rural road Construction Programme in India we document political influence in a setting where politicians have no official role in contracting decisions. Exploiting close elections to identify the causal effect of coming to power, we show that the share of contractors whose name matches that of the winning politician increases by 83% (from 4% to 7%) in the term after a close election compared to the term before. Regression discontinuity estimates at the road level show that political interference raises the cost of road Construction and increases the likelihood that roads go missing.
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Building connections: Political corruption and road Construction in India
2016Co-Authors: Jonathan Lehne, Jacob N. Shapiro, Oliver Vanden EyndeAbstract:Politically-driven corruption is a pervasive challenge for development, but evidence of its welfare effects is scarce. Using data from a major rural road Construction Programme in India we document political influence in a setting where politicians have no official role in contracting decisions. Exploiting close elections to identify the causal effect of coming to power, we show that the share of contractors whose name matches that of the winning politician increases by 63% (from 4% to 6.4%). Regression discontinuity estimates at the road level show that political interference raises costs, lowers quality, and increases the likelihood that roads go missing.
Björn Gudmundson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Lärare eller hantverkare? Om betydelsen av yrkeslärares yrkesidentifikation för vad de värderar som viktig kunskap på Bygg- och anläggningsProgrammet
Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2017Co-Authors: Mattias Nylund, Björn GudmundsonAbstract:This study examines the importance of vocational teachers’ professional identification for what they regard as important knowledge in the Building and Construction Programme in Swedish upper secondary school. The analysis is based on responses to a questionnaire completed by a large majority of teachers in the Building and Construction Programme in the Västra Götaland region. The responses suggest that the professional identification is an important factor not only for vocational teacher’s identification of important knowledge for students, but even more so for what they value as important knowledge in their own role as teachers. Two different types of vocational teachers emerge from the analysis: one who sees one’s self primarily as a craftsman and another who sees one’s self primarily as a teacher. While both types of vocational teachers place great importance on knowledge that can be traced back to a vocational culture, the ’craftsman’ clearly considers such knowledge as more important than, and more isolated from, pedagogical issues and knowledge stemming from a school culture. In contrast, the ’teacher’ considers the three fields as being almost equally important and regards vocational culture as more closely associated with pedagogical issues and a school culture.
Song Xue - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Programme time optimization model for large-scale Construction Programme in China
2017 3rd International Conference on Control Automation and Robotics (ICCAR), 2017Co-Authors: Chuanbin Zheng, Jingchun Feng, Ke Zhang, Ranran Chen, Song XueAbstract:Due to Programmes complexity and high social impact, how to spend the lowest cost to achieve their objectives meeting Programme requirements with less inhabited risk have become the owners of large-scale projects decisions difficulties. From the owner's perspective, by analyzing the time optimization mechanism, this paper systematically introduces two compression schemes to analyze the effects on the cost of projects own started in advance, effects on the cost of the successors and effects on the benefits of the owner due to the time ahead of schedule. In addition, establishing and testing a Programme time optimization model. With the support of a case study, the results provide empirical evidences on the effective of the model, which form a sound basis for Programme owners' decision made during Programme implementation. The above insights suggest research and practical emphases on the holistic relationship between owners and project managers, constitute a theoretical contribution to knowledge of the Programme time optimization model for large-scale Construction Programme and improving of the enthusiasm of the contractors and the efficiency of Programme's management.