Aplicação lean seis sigma (LSS) à gestão de projetos

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia e Gestão Industrial

Behavior monitoring and behavioral exchange: an approach from geospatial technologies involving gamification techniques

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.

MPGShipyard docks into the Middle East

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

The implementation of an Enterprise Geographical Information System to support Cadastre and Expropriation activities.

The processes of mobilization of land for infrastructures of public and private domain are developed according to proper legal frameworks and systematically confronted with the impoverished national situation as regards the cadastral identification and regularization, which leads to big inefficiencies, sometimes with very negative impact to the overall effectiveness. This project report describes Ferbritas Cadastre Information System (FBSIC) project and tools, which in conjunction with other applications, allow managing the entire life-cycle of Land Acquisition and Cadastre, including support to field activities with the integration of information collected in the field, the development of multi-criteria analysis information, monitoring all information in the exploration stage, and the automated generation of outputs. The benefits are evident at the level of operational efficiency, including tools that enable process integration and standardization of procedures, facilitate analysis and quality control and maximize performance in the acquisition, maintenance and management of registration information and expropriation (expropriation projects). Therefore, the implemented system achieves levels of robustness, comprehensiveness, openness, scalability and reliability suitable for a structural platform. The resultant solution, FBSIC, is a fit-for-purpose cadastre information system rooted in the field of railway infrastructures. FBSIC integrating nature of allows: to accomplish present needs and scale to meet future services; to collect, maintain, manage and share all information in one common platform, and transform it into knowledge; to relate with other platforms; to increase accuracy and productivity of business processes related with land property management.

Why and how projects in organizations differ? The example of Portuguese profit and non-profit organizations

This research has as a goal to give an overview of what Project Management is in Portugal. The purpose is not to focus on a small picture, but to understand the broad concept and perception of Project Management in Portugal in two very important sectors: Profit- and Non-Profit Sector. Both Profit- and Non-Profit project managers have been interviewed, giving an insight of how different projects are in both sectors and why. This paper will be especially helpful comparing the Project Management maturity of Portugal to other countries regarding these two different point of views.

A pós-edição na tradução de tecnologias da informação: uma abordagem introdutória

A pós-edição, aqui definida como a reescrita de um processo tradutório gerado exclusivamente por tradução automática, tem vindo a ganhar cada vez mais destaque no mundo da tradução. Influencia clientes, tradutores e empresas, e por isso merece um espaço no seio académico da tradução, de modo a ser estudada e discutida. Levanta questões, maioritariamente, no que diz respeito a tempo e a qualidade. É uma área na qual ainda há bastante pesquisa para ser feita. Neste relatório, analisa-se principalmente um projeto de pós-edição realizado no âmbito de um estágio curricular, abordando teoria e prática, como o nome indica, de uma forma introdutória.

Proposta de implementação de cartas de controlo na gestão de projetos pela cadeia crítica

O risco de ocorrência de desvios significativos dos custos orçamentados e de incumprimento dos prazos de execução constituem duas das principais preocupações da gestão de projetos. A derrapa-gem de prazos de projetos é um dos motivos apontados para a falta de competitividade da indústria portuguesa (Tenera, 2012). Estes atrasos, para além de falta de competitividade, podem resultar ainda, por exemplo, em sanções financeiras e perda de confiança dos clientes. Goldratt, em 1997, alertou que as limitações das técnicas clássicas de planeamento e controlo pode-riam estar na origem do não cumprimento dos prazos dos projetos, propondo a aplicação da Teoria das Restrições à gestão de projetos, a Gestão de Projetos pela Cadeia Critica (Critical Chain Project Management - CCPM). A CCPM tem os seus princípios vocacionados para a gestão do tempo e introduz mudanças signifi-cativas na forma como os projetos são geridos, preconizando uma redução nas durações programadas das atividades, para contrariar tendências comportamentais humanas de atrasar a execução das tare-fas, introduzindo ainda estrategicamente reservas temporais agregadas, que procuram proteger o pro-jeto de derrapagens temporais. Um dos principais fatores de diferenciação da CCPM é precisamente a forma de monitorizar os projetos, sendo a Gestão das Reservas (Buffer Management - BM) o prin-cipal mecanismo de gestão do tempo de execução dos mesmos. No presente trabalho foi realizada uma revisão bibliográfica dos conceitos associados à gestão de riscos em geral e em particular à gestão de tempo em projetos, através da CCPM. Estudou-se ainda, a metodologia geral de implementação das cartas de controlo, com o objetivo de se desenvolver um modelo adaptado ao controlo de reservas temporais em projetos. Assim, e de acordo com o estudo realizado, foi proposto, desenvolvido e implementado um modelo, que complementa a gestão clássica de reservas temporais da CCPM com a utilização de cartas de controlo. O modelo proposto foi testado numa empreitada de reabilitação de edifícios, na Marinha Portuguesa, com o objetivo de se avaliar a sua aplicabilidade, as suas vantagens e limitações. No presente trabalho procurou-se propor e implementar um modelo robusto de gestão de reservas na CCPM, com aplicabilidade efetiva à gestão de riscos de derrapagem de prazos de projetos, não só na indústria da construção civil como em projetos de outras áreas. Com a aplicação do modelo proposto num caso de estudo, foi possível concluir o projeto dentro do prazo contratualizado, tendo-se verificado que a implementação de cartas de controlo na BM permi-tiu antecipar a deteção de consumos excessivos das reservas temporais do projeto.

The mixed impact of design thinking on business collaborations

The present work project investigates the implications of design thinking on an interbusiness collaborative project, unveiling both the benefits and fragilities that derive from the use of such methodology within the mentioned context. The study is organized in two parts. The first one starts with a literature review on the two relevant frames of reference – design thinking and business collaboration. It proceeds to the creation of a conceptual framework to assess the potential value of the design-based approach. The second part focuses on the practical application of to the newly developed instrument to the inTRAIN project – R&D for railway interiors.

Deteção de colisões com guardas de segurança

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia Eletrónica Industrial e Computadores

Modelo de avaliação do impacto das TSI na produtividade das organizações

Dissertação de mestrado em Sistemas de Informação

Avaliação de projetos de eficiência energética na iluminação pública

Dissertação de mestrado em Engenharia Industrial

Modernização administrativa O licenciamento zero das atividades económicas nas Autarquias locais - Câmara Municipal de Óbidos

Dissertação de Mestrado em MPA – Administração Pública

Conceptual Foundations of Modelling of Innovative Production Projects

At the moment there is a lack of methodological approaches to formalization of management of innovative projects relating to production systems, as well as to adaptation and practical use of the existing approaches. This article is about one potential approach to the management of innovative projects, which makes the building of innovative process models possible based on objective approach. It outlines the frameworks for the building of innovative project models, and describes the method of transition from conceptual modelling to innovative project management. In this case, the model alone and together with parameters used for evaluation of the project may be unique and depends on the special features of the project, preferences of decision-making person, and production and economic system in which it is to be implemented. Unlike existing approaches, this concept does not place any restrictions on types of models and makes it possible to take into account the specificities of economic and production systems. Principles embodied in the model allow its usage as a basis for simulation model to be used in one of specialized simulation systems, as well as for information system providing information support of decision-making process in production and economic systems both newly developed by the company (enterprise) and designed on the basis of available information systems that interact through the exchange of data. In addition, this article shows that the development of conceptual foundations of innovative project management in the economic and production systems is inseparable from the development of the theory of industrial control systems, and their comprehensive study may be reduced to a set of elements represented as certain algorithms, models and evaluations. Thus, the study of innovative process may be conducted in both directions: from general to particular, and vice versa.

Paper 2: EUROCAT public health indicators for congenital anomalies in Europe.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to present the specific public health indicators recently developed by EUROCAT that aim to summarize important aspects of the public health impact of congenital anomalies in a few quantitative measures. METHODS: The six indicators are: (1) congenital anomaly perinatal mortality, (2) congenital anomaly prenatal diagnosis prevalence, (3) congenital anomaly termination of pregnancy, (4) Down syndrome livebirth prevalence, (5) congenital anomaly pediatric surgery, and (6) neural tube defects (NTD) total prevalence. Data presented for this report pertained to all cases (livebirths, fetal deaths, or stillbirths after 20 weeks of gestation and terminations of pregnancy for fetal anomaly [TOPFA]) of congenital anomaly from 27 full member registries of EUROCAT that could provide data for at least 3 years during the period 2004 to 2008. Prevalence of anomalies, prenatal diagnosis, TOPFA, pediatric surgery, and perinatal mortality were calculated per 1000 births. RESULTS: The overall perinatal mortality was approximately 1.0 per 1000 births for EUROCAT registries with almost half due to fetal and the other half due to first week deaths. There were wide variations in perinatal mortality across the registries with the highest rates observed in Dublin and Malta, registries in countries where TOPFA are illegal, and in Ukraine. The overall perinatal mortality across EUROCAT registries slightly decreased between 2004 and 2008 due to a decrease in first week deaths. The prevalence of TOPFA was fairly stable at about 4 per 1000 births. There were variations in livebirth prevalence of cases typically requiring surgery across the registries; however, for most registries this prevalence was between 3 and 5 per 1000 births. Prevalence of NTD decreased by about 10% from 1.05 in 2004 to 0.94 per 1000 in 2008. CONCLUSION: It is hoped that by publishing the data on EUROCAT indicators, the public health importance of congenital anomalies can be clearly summarized to policy makers, the need for accurate data from registries emphasized, the need for primary prevention and treatment services highlighted, and the impact of current services measured.