Anabela P. Tereso

• University of Minho

This paper presents the results of a case study conducted in the purchasing department of Bosch Car Multimedia Portugal, aiming to analyze and improve risk management practices within its project environment. Projects in this department are characterized by high complexity and uncertainty, making effective risk management essential. The study adopt...

This paper presents a narrative review on the Resource-Constrained Multi-Project Scheduling Problem (RCMPSP) under uncertainty and resource flexibility. Traditional project scheduling assumes complete information and a deterministic environment where a pre-computed baseline schedule is executed. However, real-world projects frequently face uncertai...

Sustainability has become crucial in today’s business landscape. Customers, suppliers, partners, and investors are increasingly demanding that companies be aware of their impacts on the environment and society. Achieving sustainability in business operations, including social, economic, and environmental aspects, is one of the major challenges for...

The selection for the location of complex infrastructures, such as airports, constitutes a challenging decision-making process due to its potential socioeconomic impacts alongside other complex factors that impact the decision process. Within this scope, this article proposes a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) framework to analyze and evaluate...

Purpose-In today's highly competitive business environment, companies face the challenge of survival in the context of market saturation. Failure to innovate and adapt can lead to stagnation and inability to generate value. Collaborative R&D projects have emerged as a solution to foster innovation by leveraging distinct knowledge and resources. Eff...

This paper presents an integrated methodology for managing industrialisation projects combining know-how, abilities, instruments, and project management tools and techniques to fulfil more efficiently and effectively industrialisation requirements. Different research methods were used during an in-depth case study involving seven researchers over t...

A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) on the Resource-Constrained Multi-Project Scheduling Problem (RCMPSP), Uncertainty, and Resource Flexibility (human resource) is presented in this study. The main purpose is to help scholars with an overview of existing techniques and to identify new research directions. After applying exclusion criteria, 107 pa...

The Portuguese Project Management Observatory (PPMO) is a non-profit organization and an initiative of the Portuguese Project Management Association (APOGEP). The PPMO was created in 2020 to serve the knowledge needs of project management, focusing on the status and evolution of project management in Portugal. The PPMO is being managed as a portfol...

In the past few years, the world has faced a rapid change in the digitalization of processes over several different economic sectors. But there are services where human contact is crucial, such as massage therapists, mindfulness guidance, yoga, therapy, etc. In those areas, digitalization and process automation are less important than human well-be...

This paper makes a theoretical contribution by exploring the integration of sustainability principles into project management. It compares two recent methodologies, PM² and PRiSMTM, and provides a practical contribution by advocating for the adoption of these sustainability-driven practices among practitioners. Sustainability remains relatively unk...

This paper makes a theoretical contribution by exploring the integration of sustainability principles into project management. It compares two recent methodologies, PM² and PRiSMTM, and provides a practical contribution by advocating for the adoption of these sustainability-driven practices among practitioners. Sustainability remains relativel...

The economic activity of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) has become increasingly project-oriented. Given SMEs’ significant role in promoting social and economic well-being, Project Management (PM) has emerged as a crucial tool for fostering innovation and sustainability within these companies and society as a whole. However, there is a ga...

Sustainability has become increasingly important. Existing project management methodologies are underdeveloped in sustainability. PM² is a methodology developed by the European Commission that aims to provide solutions and benefits to organizations. However, it doesn't include sustainability in its guide, because it aims to be generic. PRiSMTM aims...

In this article a deep search of the literature of online scheduling is conducted. This paper intends to assess the developments and solutions found for online scheduling problems. Online scheduling is a very important topic since most of the real scheduling problems have dynamic characteristics. First, it was developed a literature review about sc...

he Portuguese Project Management Observatory (PPMO), an initiative of the Portuguese Association of Project Management (APOGEP), is being developed by the University of Minho in partnership with other Higher Education institutions. The main objective of this research was to study the status of project management in Portugal, namely which tools and...

Nowadays, cost reduction, without compromising the quality and functionality of products, is a strategic issue for most companies. Therefore, companies must have adequate cost management systems and be prepared to implement cost reduction plans in order to maintain the desired levels of profitability. Many companies perform cost reduction initiativ...

The Portuguese Project Management Observatory (PPMO), an initiative of the Portuguese Association of Project Management (APOGEP), is being developed by the University of Minho in partnership with other 17 Higher Education institutions. The main objectives of this research were to understand the tools and techniques most and least used by organizati...

The textile and clothing industry is one of the most important sectors in the Portuguese economy, operating in a market that is increasingly competitive, globalized and characterized by short lifecycles and consumer volatility. This leads to an increased need for agility and speed by manufacturers, in order to respond to the market demands. Thus, i...

University-Industry R&D collaboration (UIC) project is a temporary organization with a collaborative work environment, with heterogeneous partners who have collective responsibilities, and seek to grant benefits to their different stakeholders. This paper aims to gather and bring understanding into what these benefits are, and, through a systematic...

This paper presents an integrated methodology for managing industrialisation projects combining know-how, abilities, instruments, and project management tools and techniques to fulfil more efficiently and effectively industrialisation requirements. Different research methods were used during an in-depth case study involving seven researchers over t...

Current knowledge of risk management (RM) is mainly limited to single organizations. This paper investigates RM practices from a stakeholders’ perspective applicable to university–industry R&D collaboration (UIC) programs, a particular form of inter-organizational relationship. With a view to reducing the negative impact of risk associated with suc...

A atividade económica orientada para projetos cresceu nas Pequenas e Médias Empresas (PME), e devido à sua grande importância em termos de “saúde” social e económica das economias, a Gestão de Projetos (GP) tornou-se um veículo essencial para a implementação da inovação e sustentabilidade dentro destas empresas e da sociedade. Esta investigação vis...

This research aims to identify practices that might help to ensure innovation and sustainability through Project Management (PM) within Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). Project-based economic activity has been highly increasing in the last decades, turning PM into a vehicle for implementing innovation and sustainability. A Systematic Lite...

Project management has been increasingly implemented in private and public organizations around the world and in different sectors of activity, producing improvements in companies' effectiveness and efficiency. This study explores how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) effectively use project management for business development within the se...

The Portuguese Project Management Association (APOGEP) launched in September 2020 the project of implementation of the Portuguese Project Management Observatory (PPMO), a non-profit organization with a focus on the status and evolution of project management in Portugal. The project is being managed using the PM² methodology, developed by the Europe...

This paper addresses the application of different tools, in a multi-project environment, with focus on schedule and capacity management. The action-research methodology was applied to a production machines manufacturer from the metalworking industry. After data collection, a schedule was developed using the Precedence Diagram Method and Critical Pa...

University Research Centres (URCs) have become a primary organisational structure in universities for bringing together a critical mass of multidisciplinary research interests that can compete for large, funded research projects and create breakthrough research results. Some of the more successful URCs are now developing specialised project managem...

The allocation of human resources to projects is a critical decision-making process in project management, and it is crucial to the organization's performance. The paper presents a study developed in an automotive company, focused on industrialization projects, where the project manager can manage more than one project simultaneously, being necessa...

Poor stakeholder management repeatedly comes up as one of the main reasons for unsuccessful projects. This issue takes a higher dimension when we look at the inter-organizational context, where traditional stakeholder management practices may be insufficient. This paper investigates stakeholder management applied to the context of collaborative res...

In university-industry collaborative research and development (R&D) programs and projects, Risk Management (RM) has assumed a preponderant importance for the success of programs and projects due to their innovative nature. This paper aims to present the management risks identified in R&D funded programs within a large university-industry collaborat...

The project management paradigm is changing. Agile methodologies are part of this change. They came in opposition to traditional standards and their dissemination and intertwining is resulting in the adaption of traditional models to hybrid models, especially when dealing with small projects. They allow to balance flexibility and predictability. Th...

The project management practice by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is an urgent demand and a clear concern of European countries for economic reasons in recent years. One major problem in traditional management practices is the focus on efficiency rather than innovation and control rather than empowerment. Several authors mention the exis...

It is the duty of a State to stimulate nation’s economy and social welfare, using their limited funds. This is the general purpose of the so-called public projects. The demand for these investments continues to increase, but not always they fulfil that purpose, quite the opposite. In the current economic context, it becomes urgent to revert this sc...

This paper presents a systematic literature review about traditional, Agile and Lean Project Management methodologies. A general overview on the methodologies was also made, either on the perspective of the traditional based methodologies or the Lean and Agile methodologies. The systematic literature review (SLR) results revealed more than 3500 pap...

In collaborative university-industry Research and Development (R&D) programs and projects, the areas of Risk Management (RM) and Stakeholders Management have assumed a significant importance for the success of programs and projects, due to their innovative nature. In order to reduce the impact of risk associated to university-industry R&D collabora...

University-industry collaborative programs provide special challenges in understanding and expressing the value of risk management (RM) in delivering program and project benefits. This paper presents a methodology for managing the risks in major university-industry R&D programs within a stakeholders' perspective. An ethnographic study was conducted...

The management of a project portfolio is a complex decision process because it encompasses the achievement of multiple objectives. A critical point that increases the complexity in the decision-making process of a portfolio manager is the allocation of human resources to manage the projects of the portfolio, project managers, which is crucial to th...

Over the years, countless companies have implemented project management to ensure the integration of people with processes and deliveries, with a direct impact on quality and cost. In the automotive industry, this approach helps stakeholder and challenge management. However, to achieve excellence, communication between project managers and their te...

Software development projects continue to deliver results that fall short on organization's expectations. The present research was carried out at InfoPortugal, a technological company specialized in Geographic Information Systems and Tourism and Leisure Solutions, where project management practices were underuse. Therefore, the focus of this paper...

Purpose The general objective of this research was to identify the practices of the mass production industries, on the decisions related to the detection of defective products and to identify relevant criteria, actions, effects and variables to be used in a decision-making model. Design/methodology/approach A survey questionnaire was developed and...

This study aims to help academics and practitioners to realise the benefits resulting from collaborative university-industry research and development (R&D), by identifying the most critical factors for benefits' realisation. A literature review was conducted allowing us to compile a list of 33 most acknowledged benefits resulting from university-in...

Purpose This paper proposes a decision support model that can be used to help decide the destination of defective products, for mass production industries. The objective of this model is to reduce the cost of the defect, and consequently reduce the total quality costs. Design/methodology/approach The decision model was developed based on the theor...

The initial premise of this research is that the relative efficiency of refurbishment solutions with architectural membranes needs to be measured in order to allow its comparison with conventional solutions, helping decision makers to select the most efficient solutions. The evaluation of this efficiency depends on economic features, but also on fu...

This paper describes a quantitative study to identify the functions and responsibilities (F&R) that a project management office should have to support university research centers, that organize their work by projects. The research study takes an evolutionary perspective, suggesting three different typologies of project management offices: basic, in...

This paper aims to describe the implementation of a Project Management System (PMS), supported by a Project Management Information System (PMIS) in a SME. The implemented PMS was designed to be flexible in order to support the different organization's business areas that have different types of projects requiring different project management (PM) a...

Nowadays, due to the continuous changes in technology and markets, companies need to use the best project management practices to effectively manage their projects. The use of these practices however will not have the same results in different types of projects and in different organizations. The practices used by larger companies may have differen...

Nowadays, in response to the technological evolution of the markets, organizations need to effectively improve their product development process. The product development can be seen as a global project where the industrialization project is a subproject of the product development project. The use of an integrated project management process helps to...

Public administration is increasingly implementing new management practices borrowed from the private sector with the aim of improving quality service. Public funded projects have specific characteristics, namely regulatory, in resources usage and accountability, that may be related in different ways to existing competence models. However, it is ge...

Going from an idea to a result, using a series of well-defined techniques with deadlines and limited resources, is a skill that a project manager must have. In a rapidly changing environment like the present one, there are many factors that contribute to budget overruns and delays that occur in most major projects. To be successful, one must rely o...

This paper describes the results of a qualitative study to develop a framework to demonstrate the value of using PM in collaborative university-industry R&D. The value of PM has been studied in the last decada by several researchers. However, the use of PM in the context of university-industry R&D collaborations appears to be limited. A first attem...

This article aims to make a contribution to theory, as well as to practice, by identifying which project management practices are used by most private organizations in general and by sector of activity. The influence of practitioners' characteristics in the choice of project management practices and their use in groups are also analyzed. The result...

Stakeholder management is determinant for the sustainable growth of the organizations, becoming a competitive advantage for them. This paper aims to help professionals involved in industrialization projects, by presenting a new systematic approach to stakeholder management. This research was carried out in a professional environment, at the company...

This paper is based on a case study performed in a Shared Service Center from SEG Automotive group, a former automotive division from Bosch. Due to the Bosch decision of selling the business unit of Starter Motors and Generators, it was required to create a Shared Service Center which performed the processes, until then executed by central departme...

The adequate project selection allows companies to invest resources in specific initiatives that allow them to achieve their strategic objectives and to become more competitive. In contrast, non-adequate projects selection can burden the organizations with large investments that do not impact positively in the organization in general. This paper sh...

At the current unpredictable technical evolution, the market is demanding an increasingly flexibility from companies to adapt to the pace of change in what customers want. The present research was developed in an automotive company, where software teams are pursuing Agile methodologies to coupe with these challenges. Teams use the Scrum framework,...

In a competitive world, companies lose customers and opportunities due to lack of organisation, failure to meet deadlines, bad planning, among other reasons. Project management is presented as a form to guarantee compliance with deadlines, costs reduction, sales increase, revenues growth, clients’ satisfaction, among other benefits. This paper pres...

Facing today’s complex and dynamic business environments, many organizations, especially those working in the new product development field, adopt a project-based approach to become more effective and flexible in managing change. Nevertheless, managing complex projects requires well identified, defined, yet customized practices. This becomes even m...

Earned Value Management (EVM) and Project Risk Management are normally considered separately in Project Management. Referring PMBoK®, EVM is part of Project Time Management and Project Cost Management knowledge areas, while Project Risk Management is a different knowledge area with no apparent relation with the previous ones, although the fundament...

Competitiveness in a world characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, known by the acronym VUCA, is accelerating companies towards innovation. To ensure business continuity and control risk, companies must manage operations and projects with skilled teams and applying project management methodologies. The research described...

Most often, industrialization projects, such as New Product Development (NPD) projects, do not have the full scope of work well known beforehand; the degree of uncertainty is high. In this context, the development of the Project Management Plan (PMP) is postponed to later stages of the project, when the scope becomes better understood, having great...

The implementation of project management best practices is a preponderant factor for the success of companies. Organizations need to respond quickly, efficiently and in an integrated way to the challenges emerging from daily routines. This paper focuses on presenting a solution for the implementation of project management initiatives in an Engineer...

This paper proposes an approach for developing a project management methodology to be applied on the specific context of industrialization projects. This particular type of projects comprise the development of manufacturing lines for products, the quality of the product itself being assessed the whole way through using the well-known stage-gate sys...

Over the last decade many organizations began to recognize that the implementation of Project Management (PM) practices was a necessity rather than an option. In order to improve the success of projects, organizations have been adopting specialized structures (normally called PM Offices or PMOs) that carry out the management of projects in a coordi...

While the literature provides some reflection on the relation between Project Management and New Product Development (NPD), there are still doubts on how these practices can be integrated. This study made a contribution on how a metalworking company should integrate Project Management with their established NPD process. Additionally, a proposal abo...

The main objective of this paper is to identify the practitioners’ perceptions of the most useful project management (PM) practices in industrialization projects, inside a first-tier automotive company, highlighting the PM differences inherent to the industrialization projects context. A questionnaire was distributed among all industrialization pro...

This paper describes a study on improving project management (PM) practices in architecture & design offices, conducted through semi-structured interviews and focus group with professionals from seven different offices. Taking into account the best PM practices described in literature and the most used practices and problems identified in this part...

The integration between Earned Value Management (EVM) and Project Risk Management immediately raises the question of the relationship between the two methods, even though EVM and project risk management share the same function in project management: promote the project success. At first glance it seems to be no further connection between these two...

Currently, many companies are implementing Lean Production, therefore they must rethink the production system configuration. This study aim was to evaluate different production systems configurations for a Lean environment. This evaluation used the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. Different production system configurations were characterize...

Benefits Management is a field of growing interest in the universe of University-Industry collaborative partnerships. Therefore, this paper aims to present and discuss a review on benefits and success factors that were previously identified in the literature through two distinct methods of categorization in order to qualify and better understand ho...

Project management is becoming an asset to a considerable amount of organizations in their everyday routine. When the importance of PM grows, the challenges that an organization has to face also raise, and the need of an effective answer becomes essential. The Project Management Office (PMO) is an entity which aims to facilitate project management,...

This article presents the implementation of lean principles using action research, in a health-care environment, focused on the operating room. Lean production has been successively adopted in the services sector because its implementation improves process efficiency and resources management. Additionally, a culture of continuous improvement search...

The complex and important problem of the supplier selection has been modelled with the involvement and integration of different multiple criteria decision techniques. Nevertheless, there is little empirical evidence of the relevance of such approaches to the procurement practice. In order to overcome the relevance gap it is imperative to analyze th...

Supplier evaluation and selection is recognized as a multiple criteria problem. Having considerable economic impact and influencing a competitive position of a buyer, supplier selection has been modelled by different multiple criteria decision analysis approaches. This case study focuses on the reported “relevance gap” between theoretical approache...

This paper resulted from an action-research undertaken on a Portuguese electric energy organization - EDP Distribution. The research aimed to develop, propose and implement a risk management methodology to integrate in the project management (PM) practices of an ongoing project. The methodology implemented allowed the project team to initiate syste...

This chapter resulted from an action-research undertaken on a Portuguese electric energy organization – EDP Distribution. The research aimed to develop, propose and implement a risk management methodology to integrate in the project management (PM) practices of an ongoing project. The methodology implemented allowed the project team to initiate sys...

Risk management is an important component of project management. Nevertheless, such process begins with risk assessment and evaluation. In this research project, a detailed analysis of the methodologies used to treat risks in investment projects adopted by the Banco da Amazonia S.A. was made. Investment projects submitted to the FNO (Constitutional...

The authors propose a mathematical model to minimize the project total cost where there are multiple resources constrained by maximum availability. They assume the resources as renewable and the activities can use any subset of resources requiring any quantity from a limited real interval. The stochastic nature is inferred by means of a stochastic...

This work presents a decision support system for route planning of vehicles performing waste collection for recycling. We propose a prototype system that includes three modules: route optimization, waste generation prediction, and multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). In this work we focus on the application of MCDA in route optimization. The...

During recent decades it has been possible to identify several problems in construction industry project management, related with to systematic failures in terms of fulfilling its schedule, cost and quality targets, which highlight a need for an evaluation of the factors that may cause these failures. Therefore, it is important to understand how pr...

This paper presents an improved version of an application whose goal is to provide a simple and intuitive way to use multicriteria decision methods in day-to-day decision problems. The application allows comparisons between several alternatives with several criteria, always keeping a permanent backup of both model and results, and provides a framew...

Increasing the maturity in Project Management (PM) has become a goal for many organizations, leading them to adopt maturity models to assess the current state of its PM practices and compare them with the best practices in the industry where the organization is inserted. One of the main PM maturity models is the Organizational Project Management Ma...

We explore the finish-to-start precedence relations of project activities used in scheduling problems. From these relations, we devise a method to identify groups of activities that could execute concurrently, i.e. activities in the same group can all execute in parallel. The method derives a new set of relations to describe the concurrency. Then,...

This paper presents the developed risk management methodology and the main risk management results of a pilot project in a Portuguese electric energy organization - EDP Distribution. Most of the project risks identified have external and technical sources, and most of the risks are rated as medium and high level. In the future, it is expected that...

We address the stochastic multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem in the case where the project activities require multiple renewable resources, constrained by total availability. In our study, we introduce uncertainty by characterizing, in each activity, each required resource with a work content following some known distributio...

Project Management (PM) has emerged as a crucial factor that determines the success of an organization. In this sense, there is a growing concern for organizations to assess their PM maturity. This paper presents the PM maturity results for 19 organizations, using Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®) emerging from OPM3® Portugal...