Competency management is a very important part of a well-functioning organisation especially when considering individual long-term development planning and organisational learning. Unfortunately competency descriptions are not uniformly specified nor defined across boarders: National, sectorial or organisational, leading to an opaque competency description market with a multitude of competency ...

In this paper we review different approaches for scheduling projects in multi-project environments. We show the evolution of the methodologies from the Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem to the Decentralized Resource Constrained Multi-Project Scheduling Problem. We argue that traditional methods used in project scheduling cannot cope with the complexity of current real portfolios p...

Fuzzy project scheduling has interested several researchers in the past two decades; about 20 articles have been written on this issue. Contrary to stochastic project-scheduling approaches that are used by many project schedulers, and even if the axiomatic associated to the theory of probabilities is not always compatible with decision-making situations, fuzzy project-scheduling approaches that...

This article describes how librarians created a Wikipedia article on cultural competence in health care to support the medical school's curriculum. Wikipedia, often considered not as reliable as scholarly articles, continues to be popular. Rutgers librarians conducted a Wikipedia project to improve its content to benefit students. The importance of cultural competency in health care is widely r...

Problem-based learning (PBL) was used as the instructional design basis for a TAFE unit of competency developed for online delivery. The courseware was commissioned to provide online content for users of the Victorian TAFE Virtual Campus. The aim of the project was to provide courseware that would develop competency in the course topic ‘Soil Characteristics and Survey Techniques’ and also devel...

one of the important problems in project management is lack of available resources in proper time at project site that leads to lack of project implementation in due date. this problem may be lead to time delay in sending resources from suppliers and related origins in supply chain to project site. therfore, to better resources managmenet and also the improvement of supply chain condition, the ...

There is increased awareness about the factors that affect project success since stakeholders are constantly working towards a successful project. Although there many aspects project's success, managers essential. The purpose of this study to investigate how emotional intelligence (EI) affects managers' ability manage projects effectively. Research has been done in fields relation between and b...

The APOSDLE project aims to improve knowledge worker productivity by supporting work-integrated learning. Our Work@Learn approach is based on re-using a wide variety of knowledge artefacts within an organization (such as project reports and meeting notes) for learning. Typically these artefacts have been built without any teaching objectives in mind. Within this contribution we present the way ...