Various business considerations have led a growing number of organizations to rely on external vendors to develop software for their needs. Much of the day-to-day data from vendors are not available to the vendee, and typically the vendee organization ends up with its own system or acceptance test to validate the software. The 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney was one such project in which IBM eva...

Decisions based on risk analysis require some form of risk acceptance criteria. Presently the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has initiated an activity on developing a risk-based approach to safety and environmental protection regulations. Explicit risk estimates are new to the IMO. At present, a number of FSA Trial Applications are presented, giving increased general knowledge of the...

While suppliers are often an excellent source of product innovation for buyers, their propensity to undertake or continue an innovation project is often elusive. This study examines what factors, including characteristics of the innovation project or the supplier’s decision environment, influence the decision to accept and subsequently continue an innovation project involving significant financ...

A decision maker observes a noisy signal of the quality of a project before deciding to accept or reject the project. We show 1As the amount of noise increases, the minimum signal required for acceptance may either increase or decrease, and may be nonmonotonic. 2Consequently, the average quality of accepted projects may either increase or decrease in the amount of noise. 3The effect of increase...

In this paper we discuss the results of the Create Acceptance project. In a comparative analysis of 27 case studies on new energy projects we identify five crucial challenges for project managers of new energy projects related to societal acceptance. We discuss a six-step methodology for facilitating societal acceptance in new and ongoing energy projects. The methodology is tested and refined i...

In this paper we illustrate (a) the background and goals of the interdisciplinary research project SAFEST and (b) first insights from the socio-scientific part within the project. Technical systems are often established without considering explicitly ethical, legal, and social implications. This frequently leads to a lack of acceptance. This paper aims at compiling an analytical scheme that tri...

critical path method (cpm) is one of the most popular techniques used by construction practitioners for construction project scheduling since the 1950s. despite its popularity, cpm has a major shortcoming, as it is schedule based on two impractical acceptance that the project deadline is not bounded and that resources are unlimited. the analytical competency and computing capability of cpm thus...

Developing software systems which are easy to use and increase the productivity of users is still a major challenge in software engineering. Thus a large number of usability engineering methods have been proposed to systematically develop software with high usability. However studies indicate that even basic usability engineering methods are not integrated in software development lifecycles pra...