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PROGRAMME

Project Management Development – Practice and Perspectives

April 10-11, 2014, Riga, University of Latvia

Project Management Development – Practice and PerspectivesThird International Scientific Conference on Project Management in the Baltic Countries

April 10-11, 2014, Riga, University of Latvia

Conference is organized by the Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Latvia, and the Professional Association of Project Managers, in cooperation with Baltic Controlling Institute, Employers’ Confederation of Latvia

and Latvian Association of Local and Regional Governments, supported by the “Latvijas Mobilais Telefons” Ltd.

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The aim of the conference is to discuss results of scientific research in project management issues, to establish new contacts and networking between professionals involved in project management as well as enhance the capacity of project managers. The conference programme includes opening plenary session, parallel sessions. All abstracts are reviewed by two reviewers and papers included in the conference proceedings are double blind reviewed. Conference language is English.

Keynote speakers at the conference are:

• Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c.mult. Peter J. A. Reusch (Germany). Dortmund University of Applied Science and Arts

• Prof. Dr. Edgar Bellow (France). Reims Management School

• Pg.Cert., Pg.Dip., M. A. Marie Sams (United Kingdom). Coventry University

The work of the conference will be organized in the parallel sessions:

1. CapacityoforganizationsinProjectManagement,NewApproachesofProjectManagement

Session chairs: ArviKuura,ŽanetaIlmete, VjacheslavAndreevichKozlov

2. ITProjectManagement–PracticeandPerspectives

Session chairs: PeterReusch,CarstenWolff,MārisPūķis

3. ProjectRiskandFinanceManagement,QuantitativeModellingSession chairs: WolfgangTysiak, RimaTamošiūnienė, PascalReusch,BirutaSloka

4. ProblemsandSolutionsinProjectManagement(Implementation)

Session chairs: Edgar Bellow,InesaVorončuka,Margus Kõomägi

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DETAILEDPROGRAMME OFTHECONFERENCE

Thursday,April10,201417.30–20.00 Registrationfortheconference,Raiņabulv.19,lobby18.00–20.00WelcomeCocktail,Raiņabulv.19

Friday,April11,20149.00–10.00 RegistrationfortheconferenceRaiņabulv.19,lobby10.00–12.00 PlenarySession,Raiņabulv.19,Lielāaula(GreatAula)

Session chairs: Carsten Wolff, Peter J. A. Reusch

Conferenceopening:Gundars Bērziņš, Chancellor of University of Latvia Žaneta Ilmete, President of Professional Association of Project Managers, Latvia Māris Pūķis, Senior Advisor of Latvian Association of Local and Regional Government

Presentations• Peter J. A. Reusch (Germany). Dependency Management in

Projects• Maria Sadat, Edgar Bellow (Afghanistan, France). Demining

Project Management in Afghanistan• Marie Sams (United Kingdom). Project Complexities in Creating

Products and Delivering Services: Defining Success From the Practitioner Perspective

12.00–14.00 Lunchcafé“Daily” (Raiņabulv.19)

14.00–15.30 ParallelSessions(Raiņabulv.19)15.30–16.00 CoffeeBreak(Raiņabulv.19)16.00–17.30 ParallelSessions(Raiņabulv.19)

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17.30–18.15 Conferenceconclusionsandfutureprospects, Raiņabulv.19,Mazāaula(SmallAula)Session chairs: Peter J. A. Reusch, Wolfgang Tysiak

19.00–22.00 Reception Hosted by Žaneta Ilmete, President of Professional Association of Project Managers, Latvia

Parallelsessions

1. CapacityofOrganizationsinProjectManagement,NewApproachesofProjectManagement (Raiņabulv.19,240)

Session chairs: Arvi Kuura, Žaneta Ilmete, Vjacheslav Andreevich Kozlov 1. InnaNeimane,ŽanetaIlmete(Latvia).ProjectManagersCompetenceinLatvia

2. Larisa Korganashvili, Natalia Kharadze (Georgia). Regional Project Management of Tourism Development in Georgia

3.Liina Puusepp, Arvi Kuura (Estonia). Projectification of Sport Management

4.Silvija Bruņa (Latvia). Project Management Process in PublicAdministration

5.Aurelija Jakubė, Gražina Rapolienė (Lithuania). The Chalanges ofTuning Project Work and Hierarchical Organizational System in an Academic Setting

6.Shota Shaburishvili, David Sikhrulidze (Georgia). Selection of the Start-up Stage Investment Project

7.Vjacheslav Andreevich Kozlov, Larisa Aleksandrovna Danchenok(Russia). Project Expert as a Tool of Investment Project Management

2. ITProjectManagement–PracticeandPerspectives (Raiņabulv.19Mazāaula(SmallAula))

Session chairs: Peter Reusch, Carsten Wolff, Māris Pūķis1. Ala Nuseibah, Carsten Wolff (Israel, Germany). Digital Business EcosystemDevelopmentforM2MProjects

2. Lubna Siddique, Bassam A. Hussein (Norway). A Practical Insight About Use of Agile Methodology According To Type of Project

3.Lubna Siddique, BassamA.Hussein (Norway). Practical Insight Into Estimation Process in Software Projects Using Agile Methods

4.Maia Giorgobiani, Mzia Tikishvili (Georgia). Social-Statistical Project management With Using MS Project

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5.TziraJapiashvili(Georgia). Information System Development for the Assessment and Administration of Higher Education

6.UldisZandbergs,AldisErglis(Latvia). Investments in Human Resource Development According to Core Competencies of the Company and its Impact on Project Management in Software Development Companies inLatvia

3.ProjectRiskandFinanceManagement,QuantitativeModelling(Raiņabulv.19,101)

Session chairs: Wolfgang Tysiak, Rima Tamošiūnienė, Pascal Reusch, Biruta Sloka 1. Muhammet Deveci, FatihCanitez, Mehmet Kilic, NihanCetinDemirel

(Turkey). Project Scheduling Methods Used Under Uncertainty: A Numerical Example

2. LauraKeršule,BirutaSloka(Latvia).StrategicIssuesinManagingPersonnel: Motivation and Work Performance Chalanges

3. Juris Uzulans (Latvia). Project Risk Management DocumentationEvaluation Methods

4.Pascal Reusch (Germany). Defining the Value of Sustainability in Projects

5. Inese Ratanova, Eduards Gross (Latvia). The Controlling Systemin Management of SME’s Enterprises Projects in Latvia: Issues ofFormation

6.Nomeda Dobrovolskienė, Rima Tamošiūnienė (Lithuania). ResourceAllocation in the Project Portfolio: A Review of Quantitative Models

7.Shaheen Pouya, Jussi Kantola, Marja Naaranoja (Finland). Project Stakeholders’ Supposition About Project Success Factors (a Communication Perspective)

8.Mohammad Sepehr Assadian, Farzad Sadeghi (Iran). Risk Management: Applicable Tool for Project Managers in International ConstroctionJointVentures(LessonlearnedfromIranian–ChineseIJV)

9.Wolfgang Tysiak (Germany). The Dynamics in the Monitoring and Control of Risk Management in Projects

Statements: Hêriş Golpîra, Abbas Saghaei (Iran). On Supply Chain Network Risk Management, Using Taguchi MethodHêrişGolpîra,ShamilaHejazi (Iran). A Scenario Based Stochastic Multi-Objective Modeling for Time-Cost-Quality Trade-Off Problem

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4.ProblemsandSolutionsinProjectManagement(Implementation) (Raiņabulv.19,456)

Session chairs: Edgar Bellow, Inesa Vorončuka, Margus Kõomägi1. HongdiWang,WeishengLu (Hong Kong). Exploring the Social Power

in Project-Based Organizations: a Case of HK Public Projects2.Margus Kõomägi, Varje Kodasma (Estonia). Integration of Project

Accounting and Finance: Problems and Solutions in EU-Funded Investment Projects

3.OlitaJanberga,SilvijaBruņa(Latvia). The Most Common Mistakes in EuropeanUnionFundsProjectsinLatvia

4.EmīlsPūlmanis(Latvia). Public Sector Project Management Planning and Efficiency Problems

5.Vivekanand M Bankolli, Karuna Jain (India). Interplay of Tangible and Intangible Factors in Project management: Case Study of Marine Project

6.WeishengLu,YiPeng(Hong Kong). Do Clients Really Know What They Want About BIM? Clarifying BIM Specifications in Tendering

7. Inese Brante (Latvia). Appraisal and Further Developments of theProject of the Programme “Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived”(FEAD)overthe2014-2020period

8.PēterisRivža, IlzeStokmane,AgneseOļševska,EvijaPlone (Latvia).Common problems and solutions of EU funded projects

Statements:Mohammad Reza Hosseini, Nicholas Chileshe, Jian Zuo, BassamBaroudi (Australia). A Discourse on Virtuality of Teams for Construction Project Managers Parviz Ghoddousi, Behzad T. Alizadeh, M. Reza Hosseini, NicholasChileshe (Iran, Australia). Benchmarking Labour Productivity inPerforming On-Site Activities: Lessons for Construction ProjectManagers

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ConferenceOrganizingCommittee

ŽanetaIlmete(UniversityofLatvia)SilvijaBruņa(UniversityofLatvia,ProfessionalAssociation

of Project Managers)EmīlsPūlmanis(UniversityofLatvia,ProfessionalAssociation

of Project Managers)KasparsČikste(UniversityofLatvia)JūlijaKovaļska(Professional Association of Project Managers)BeatriseJanberga(Professional Association of Project Managers)LaurisLiepiņš(Professional Association of Project Managers)MārtiņšŠteinbergs(Professional Association of Project Managers)RitaŽuka(UniversityofLatvia)

Project Management Development – Practice and PerspectivesThird International Scientific Conference on Project Management in the Baltic Countries

April 10-11, 2014, Riga, University of Latvia

Conferencewebpage: http://balticpmconference.eu www.evf.lu.lv/pmconf2014

LogopreparedbyEmilsPulmanisThe publication contents are the sole responsibility of the publication author

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