Special Theme: Project Management in E-Science: Challenges and Opportunities

In this introduction to the special theme: Project Management in e-Science: Challenges and Opportunities, we argue that the role of project management and different forms of leadership and facilitation can influence significantly the nature of cooperation and its outcomes and deserves further resear...

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Published in:Computer supported cooperative work Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 155 - 163
Main Authors: Spencer, Dimitrina, Zimmerman, Ann, Abramson, David
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.06.2011
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Computer programs
Computer Science
Cooperation
Cooperative work
Dynamics
Leadership
Project management
Psychology
Social factors
Social Sciences
Software
Transformations
User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
Webs
project management
interdisciplinary collaboration
software development
collaboratories
team-building
cyberinfrastructure
agile management
agile development
facilitation of e-science teams
usability
e-science
leadership
e-infrastructures
ISSN:0925-9724, 1573-7551
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Summary:In this introduction to the special theme: Project Management in e-Science: Challenges and Opportunities, we argue that the role of project management and different forms of leadership and facilitation can influence significantly the nature of cooperation and its outcomes and deserves further research attention. The quality of social interactions such as communication, cooperation, and coordination, have emerged as key factors in developing and deploying e-science infrastructures and applications supporting large-scale and distributed collaborative scientific research. If software is seen to embody the relational web within which it evolves, and if the processes of software design, development and deployment are seen as ongoing transformations of this dynamic web of relationships between technology, people and environment, the role of managers becomes crucial: it is their responsibility to balance and facilitate the dynamics of these relationships.
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ISSN:0925-9724
1573-7551
DOI:10.1007/s10606-011-9140-4