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Record W2900522130 · doi:10.21608/auej.2017.19248

TOWARDS APPRAISAL AND IMPROVEMENT OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOR EGYPTIAN CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTORS

2017· article· en· W2900522130 on OpenAlex
Mohamed Moutawei, Moheeb Ibrahim

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Al-Azhar University Engineering Sector · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicConstruction Project Management and Performance
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEngineering managementBusinessProject appraisalConstruction engineeringProject managementEngineeringProcess managementOperations managementSystems engineering

Abstract

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Project Management has evolved and emerged by several organizations not only to gain competitive advantage; but also as a crucial factor that determines the success of the organization. In this regard, there is a global growing interest and attention for organizations to evaluate and improve the level of their project management practices. The past decade has shown a dramatic increase in the attention, research and practice of the project management maturity and the maturity models. These models are used to evaluate the current project management capabilities of an organization and to ensure its efficiency and uniformity in delivering projects successfully. Moreover, these models are used to further enhance the performance of organizations. Although the maturity models has evolved during the last decade as one of the tools for achieving project management excellence on the organization level; however, the excessive variety of maturity models has made the choice between those models difficult and need careful attention and consideration in both the model choice and its practical implementation in the business. For developed countries (such as USA, Canada, UK, Europe, etc…) several maturity models have been proposed and commonly implemented successfully. In Egypt, there is a lack of documentation available on the current status and use of maturity models in the contracting organizations working in the construction industry. This paper constitutes a part of a larger research project aims to fill this gap. To achieve this, an extensive literature review has been conducted on the predominant existing maturity models, a market survey to assess the current status of maturity awareness in the construction contracting organizations has been developed and the basis of integrated framework for appraisal and improvement of project management practices for the contracting organizations working in the Egyptian construction industry have been proposed.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.882
Threshold uncertainty score0.411

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.061
GPT teacher head0.349
Teacher spread0.288 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it