Data Driven Project Management

Prelevikj, Marko (author), Demšar, Jure (mentor)

The project management office has the task of monitoring the execution of ongoing projects in the organization. To make the process easier and more transparent throughout the organization, a project management information system is used to track the current status of projects. The project management information system contains a large amount of rich data that is presented to users through only relatively simple visualization methods. To solve this problem, we hypothesize that the organization can benefit from the insights gained by applying modern data analysis methods to its data. To test the validity of our hypothesis, we present three new reports focusing on the performance of employees and on completed and ongoing work in the organization. The reports use newly designed metrics that estimate the complexity of a task and the time spent on it. We confirm our hypothesis by facilitating expert knowledge from the industry. As a result of our analysis, the project management office was able to improve the process of project execution in the organization.

• Language: English
• Keywords: agile project management, project management information system, quantitative data analysis, project success, performance metrics
• Work type: Master's thesis/paper
• Typology: 2.09 - Master's Thesis
• Organization: FRI - Faculty of Computer and Information Science
• Year: 2020
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-119074
• COBISS.SI-ID: 27677187
• Publication date in RUL: 02.09.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Vodenje projektov na podlagi analize podatkov

Abstract

Naloga urada za upravljanje projektov je spremljanje izvajanja tekočih projektov v organizaciji. Za lažje in preglednejše sledenje trenutnega stanja projektov, se v celotni organizaciji običajno uporablja informacijski sistem za vodenje projektov. Informacijski sistem za vodenje projektov vsebuje veliko količino podatkov, vendar so le-ti običajno predstavljeni zgolj z razmeroma prerostimi vizualizacijami. Ker pa so podatki bogati, domnevamo, da ima organizacija lahko koristi od znanja, pridobljenega z uporabo sodobnejših metod analize podatkov. Za preverjanje veljavnosti naše hipoteze predstavljamo tri poročila, ki se osredotočajo na uspešnost zaposlenih ter na zaključena in tekoča dela v organizaciji. Poročila uporabljajo na novo uvedene metrike, ki ocenjujejo zapletenost naloge in čas, porabljen za nalogo. Svojo hipotezo smo potrdili v sodelovanju s strokovnjaki iz industrije. Kot rezultat naše analize je uradu za upravljanje projektov v priznanem podjetju uspelo izboljšati proces vodenja projektov.

• Keywords: agilno vodenje projektov, informacijski sistemi za podporo vodjenje projektov, kvantitativna analiza podatkov, uspešnost projekta, metrike uspešnosti