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Keynote presentation

Creative Construction Conference 25-28 June 2016 Hotel Danubius Health Spa Resort Margitsziget, Budapest, Hungary

On the latest conference on project management in the construction sector, I have met wonderful people from around the globe with an interest in project management and construction. I have given a keynote lecture on the use of data in project management, and the reactions and suggestions that I received afterwards have inspired me to keep going on that interesting topic. Maybe, just maybe, I will write a book about it.

The big data project manager: Academics like what they do and professionals know what they want

Abstract: This presentation gives an overview of the past endeavours and the recent trends in integrated project management and control, with a focus on linking scheduling to risk and control management. The presentation will give an overview on the use of project data for research and practice, and will show that the big data hype is for project management restricted to the presence of artificial sets and only one set of empirical projects. However, recent research trends illustrate that the integrated use of empirical data and advanced techniques from artificial intelligence leads to promising results, which might define the path for future research avenues. References to a literature overview of project control will be given to outline the future of the research on integrated project management and control.

With Miklós Hajdu, Chair of the International Organizing Committee

Presentation: If you attended this session, you can obtain a PDF with the slides by clicking here.