Decision-making · Gamification · Project Management

Our Experience Presenting The Project Win Game™ at the European Conference on Games Based Learning in Lisbon, Portugal

Victoria Vaca2 Comments

We were searching for the appropriate forum to promote our game The Project Win Game™. We found a conference we never heard of: the European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL). It was an academic conference, so we weren’t sure whether it made sense to attend or let alone present our game. Still, applied and… Continue reading Our Experience Presenting The Project Win Game™ at the European Conference on Games Based Learning in Lisbon, Portugal

Artificial Intelligence · pmot

The intersection between project success factors and AI ethical principles

Gloria J. Miller1 Comment

An emerging topic in artificial intelligence (AI) projects is project teams’ responsibilities for developing ethical AI systems. Consequently, there are many ethical guidelines and principles that project teams should take into consideration. For example, Jobin, Ienca, and Vayena performed a content analysis of 84 AI ethical guidelines. 84. Ryan and Stahl translated those guidelines into… Continue reading The intersection between project success factors and AI ethical principles

Project Management

Projects and Holiday Season in Europe

Gloria J. Miller

Europeans take their vacations very seriously. They plan them weeks and months in advance. In Germany: People with or without children plan vacations around the published school holidays. People with children plan to spend time with their families, usually away somewhere, on vacation; people without children plan their vacations to avoid those people on vacation… Continue reading Projects and Holiday Season in Europe

agile · Project Management · Virtual

Managing Projects During this COVID Denial Phase

Gloria J. Miller

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic response, we wrote about 100% distributed working. Since then, we went through a phase of removing COVID restrictions, and now we are in the COVID denial phase. Each of these phases has a different effect on our projects. Impacts of COVID in the different phases During the COVID… Continue reading Managing Projects During this COVID Denial Phase

Computer Science

Gloria J. Miller Named as IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributors

Gloria J. Miller

Gloria J. Miller has been named a Distinguished Contributor to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society, IEEE News Release. The IEEE Distinguished Contributor Program “… awardees have demonstrated technical achievements and contributions that exemplify our goal of leading the global technical community and contributing to the development and application of technology… Continue reading Gloria J. Miller Named as IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributors

Professonal Services · Project Management

Practical Ways to Motivate Your Team During Remote Work

Victoria Vaca

The pandemic has shaken everything, and remote work became the new norm for many workers worldwide. The transition from present to virtual teams was relatively quick but often not well prepared. We have now been working remotely long enough to observe that virtual teams can also become demotivated. We may not notice the social and emotional… Continue reading Practical Ways to Motivate Your Team During Remote Work

Artificial Intelligence · pmot

#AI Project Success — Book Chapter Published

Gloria J. Miller

Gloria J. Miller has a book chapter published by Springer entitled Artificial Intelligence Project Success Factors—Beyond the Ethical Principles in “Information Technology for Management: Business and Social Issues”. It details her paper that was presented at the FedCSIS 2021 conference in September 2021. The individual chapter is available as Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution… Continue reading #AI Project Success — Book Chapter Published

Artificial Intelligence · big data · Business Intelligence & Analytics · Project Management

Data science: BI, Big Data Analytics, AI Competencies

Gloria J. Miller

These days, the terminology used for artificial intelligence can include any number of data science sub-fields, including business intelligence, big data analytics, or other decision support systems. Within big data analytics, the technique and method of machine learning can also be a distinguishing factor, e.g., natural language processing, neural networks, computer vision, conversational. As project… Continue reading Data science: BI, Big Data Analytics, AI Competencies

agile · Decision-making · Project Management

The Project Win Game™ — Simulating Project Management Decision-Making

Victoria Vaca3 Comments

We noticed people faced a challenge understanding and deciding between agile and traditional/waterfall methodologies on managing projects. Therefore, we created a game to simulate the lived experience of making this decision: The Project Win Game ™. After creating and testing it throughout 2020-2021 we have now a very nice prototype of the game. We are… Continue reading The Project Win Game™ — Simulating Project Management Decision-Making