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One the most critical aspect in project management is how to assign the project managers (PMs) to projects, especially whenever the PMs can lead more than one project. The present paper proposes a parameter (PME) to evaluate the PM in accomplishing a specific project useful for a next phase of assignment. The PME takes into account the technical skills, the leadership behavior and the relationships with project’s stakeholders. These parameters are aggregated by a Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) that well emulates the decision process of the experts by means of a rule-based inference engine. Moreover, to better define the PME, a procedure, based on the discordance concept, is proposed to compare the PM skills with those required by the project.
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Certa, A., Enea, M., Galante, G., La Fata, M. (2010). A Project Manager Suitability Parameter in Project Accomplishment. In: Taticchi, P. (eds) Business Performance Measurement and Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04800-5_12
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