Tomorrow's Data Empowered Project Management

Project management (PM) has been an essential area that deals with various decision-making problems. It offers various opportunities to conduct academic studies, formulate new models to solve business problems, and develop software and decision support systems (DSS). It has been attracting the attention of academicians and professionals involved in project teams who studied different disciplines. This book explores contemporary industry problems and trends and related promising research areas, shedding light on the future of project management. It contains chapters that focus on new technology applications and organizational trends. The book comprises two parts: new technologies and recent developments in organizing projects. An important characteristic of this book is to gather the managers and academics who conduct theoretical studies in this field to discuss the future of project management. The discussion topics include how data analytics and artificial intelligence developments might shape project life cycle management and how the Fourth/Fifth Industrial Revolution and the new technologies will transform project management practices. The importance of sustainability in project management practices is elaborated on. Recent developments in the organization of projects, such as adopting agile techniques, establishing project management offices, and developing maturity models, are discussed. 

As such, the book is aimed at a diverse audience of undergraduate and graduate students and practitioners seeking to develop their project management knowledge.

Öncü Hazır is professor at Rennes School of Business in France. He received his BS in Industrial Engineering and MBA from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He completed his Ph.D. at the Department of Business Administration at Bilkent University in 2008. His dissertation was on project scheduling. He worked as a post-doctorate researcher in Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne and as an associate professor at TED University. His research interests mainly cover project scheduling and control, earned value management, production planning, and operations management. He participated in various research projects and gave seminars and lectures. He published several articles in operations research and management journals. He co-authored the textbook, “An Introduction to Project Modeling and Planning," published by Springer.

Maria Elena Bruni is professor in Operations Research at the University of Calabria and collaborating member of the CIRRELT, Montreal. She received a Ph.D. in Operations Research at the University of Calabria and a M.S. in Public Economy from the University of Sapienza (Rome). Her research activity focuses on designing solution methods for combinatorial problems under uncertainty and risk, with applications mainly in scheduling, routing and healthcare. She is author of more than 90 papers accepted in refereed international journals and author of three Springer book chapters. She received the best paper prize of the IMA Journal of Management mathematics journal in 2016 and best poster awards for the ICORES conferences in 2018, 2019 and 2022. She is associate editor of international journals, workshop organizer and member of program and scientific committees for several international conferences.