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Case Studies

This is a listing of a project management case studies published in Project Management World Today. The cases are listed as they were posted in the monthly digest and are not arranged in any categories. However, these cases do illustrate the many different areas and environments of the project management discipline.

2009

June

• Transforming the Project Management Culture
  within the Ministry of Interior, Kingdom of
  Saudi Arabia
  By Abdullah Tamimi

May

• Transforming the Project Management Culture
  at Harris
  By Mark Scott, PMP

February

• PTC Improves Customer Satisfaction Through Global
  Project Management
  By J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, PgMP

2008

November

• Delivering Multiple Sites and Time Zones Projects:
  A Case Study in the Telecom Industry
  By Ram Garg

October

• "Bravo" Company: Lessons Learned in Project Management
  By Bob Prieto Senior Vice President, Fluor
• Leadership Based Project Management Model Tested On
  Food Services at Arizona State University
  By John K. Michael, Dean Kashiwagi, Kenneth T. Sullivan Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

September

• Lean Project Management at NNIT
  By Alan Harpham
• Program and Project Retrospectives: A Success Story of Three Teams
  By Debra Lavell & Russell Martinell

August

• Introduction of Project Management Courses at University: A Case Study
  By Mitra Arami, Head of Project Management Competence Center, University of Applied Science bfi Vienna

July

• Transforming an Organization by Using a New Project Management Approach
  By Jacob Kashiwagi, Marie Sullivan, Kenneth T. Sullivan
  & Dean Kashiwagi

June

• Program and Project Retrospectives in a Global Workplace
  (PART 4 IN A Series)
  By Debra Lavell & Russell Martinelli

May

• Streamlined Decision-Making and Sharper Project Focus at BAE Systems
  BY Liz Fletcher
• The People Side of Program and Project Retrospectives
  (PART 3 IN A Series)
  By Debra Lavell & Russell Martinelli

March

• Starting a PMO from Scratch: A Challenge or Unbearable Burden?
  (PART 2 IN A Series)
  BY Florin Gheorghiu, PMP

February

• Project and Program Retrospectives: Achieving organizational buy-in
  (PART 2 IN A Series)
  By Debra Lavell & Russell Martinelli
• Young Engineers at Work
  By Anthony DeMarco

January

• Project and Program Retrospectives for Improved Business Results
  (Introduction to the Series)
  By Debra Lavell & Russell Martinelli
• Program and Project Retrospectives: An Introduction (Part 1 of a Series)
  By Debra Lavell & Russell Martinelli

2007

• No Case Studies posted for 2007

2006

• Using PRINCE2 to Start Up a Business
• Building an Army?\Program Management in Afghanistan
• Pension Protection Fund Programme & Project Management Capability Project
• Eureka! Managing the Integrated Study of Archimedes' Work by Michael Toth
• Integrating SAP and Primavera at AOL

2005

• Implementation of P2M for Software Development to Multi-Projects Environment
• Standard Processes for Software Cost Estimation Saves 6 Effort-Months per Proposal
• Strategic Resource Planning at Ericsson Research Canada
• Implementation of P2M for Public Construction and Analysis of the Result
• Learning from Experience
• The Project Was Three Years Late: But an Incredible Success!
• Stories as Agents for Change
• The Three Little Pigs Project
• AT&T Wireless Self Destructs
• The Global Project Categorization Project

2004

• The Global Project Categorization Project
• The APM Body of Knowledge Research Project - A Progress Report
• AT&T Wireless Self Destructs
• The Canadian Government On Line Program
• NASA Financial Systems: Houston we have a problem
• Exploring Mars
• The APM BoK Update Project
• The Telecommunications Optimization Project
• The Canadian Government Gun Registry Project
• Big Project Watch

2003

• Metronet And The London Underground Project
• Manitoba Livestock Manure Management Initiative
• The Picasso Project
• Big Project Watch
• The European Community's DataGrid Project
• Neo Project - Hacking The X Box
• Why Government Projects Go Wrong
• The Human Genome Project 1990 - 2003
• UK Financial Services Case Study Is your organization being beastly to you?
• A Construction Management Case Study Some Personal Observations
• U.S. Government's Top 5 Quality Software Projects

2002

• The LA Airport Expansion Project
• The Case of the Missing "Principles of Project Management" Project?
• The Concorde Project
• The Rocky Flats Closure Project
• The WoW Project
• Project Brief - Project Learn Canada
• The Integrated Forest Fire Management Project of Indonesia
• The Lemur Project
• The Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Project
• The Mind Manager Solution
• The Pew Internet & American Life Project
• Lessons From Mars

2001

• The 3Cities Project
• The SAITIS Project
• PMI 2000 International Project of the Year
• The Newarch Project
• The Hong Kong Cyberport Project
• Readiness Assessment for the Canadian Army
• International Research Project
• SY-101 Surface Level Rise Remediation Project U.S. Department of Energy
• The GNU Project
• The Miamisburg Environmental Management Project

2000

• Globalization of The International Project Management Association
• The USGenWeb Project
• RESEARCH PROJECT THE PROJECT-ORIENTED SOCIETY
• COMPUTERWORLD
• More project management case studies
• CHCS II Project
• The High Flyer - US Navy F-14
• Project Oriented Society Benchmarking Project (POS)
• Project Management Research Project Quantifying Project Management's Value
• The E-conomy Project
• Learning from the Year 2000 Transition Project A Program Lessons Learned Report

1999

• On Project Risk Management "Principles of Forecasting Project"
• Pennsylvania Flora Project
• Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystems Management Project
• Comparison Glossary of Common Project Management Terms A Technical Brief
• Human Genome Project
• The Internet2 Project
• Towards More Efficient Project Management at NPCIL
• Forced Migration Projects
• The Project Oriented Society Project
• Canadian Government - Wide Procurement Reform Project
• The Soul of a Project - The "egg-box" game A Project Management Training Exercise
• UNESCO Project Bethlehem 2000
• The Project Management Principles Project

1998

• Center for Army Lessons Learned Virtual Research Library
• Berkeley Digital Library Project
• he Law Office and Project Management
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• European Space Agency Ariane 5 Project
• Stones of History Project
• Watershed Management Project
• World's Largest Ever Offshore Survey Project
• Asian Development Bank Project DIAL
• Panorama Inc - On-line Case Studies

1997

• Risk Trak Case Study
• Artemis Project Management Solutions
• Carnegie Mellon University - Financial Management Process (FMP)
• NASA - Project Information Management System (PIMS)
• Applications for Rural Connections Project
• NASA - Project Information Management System (PIMS)
• USC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Project
• Web Book Project
• The Confederation Bridge Project
• Other Major Project Web Sites
• Project Internet 2
• Real World Solutions
• Project Primary
• Standards from the Street
• The Soul of a Project
• United States Embassy Ottawa, Canada
• What Went Wrong? A KPMG Report
• Transport and the Environment

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