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PROMONT – A Project Management Ontology as a Reference for Virtual Project Organizations

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops (OTM 2006)

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This paper introduces “PROMONT”, a project management ontology. PROMONT models project management specifications from a number of sources, most notably the upcoming DIN 69901 model for the exchange of project data. As a reference ontology it helps to build a common understanding of project related terms and methods thus facilitating the management of projects conducted in dynamic virtual environments. It is especially well suited for cross-enterprise project related business processes such as integration management, communication and controlling. A distributed project scenario is used to illustrate how a project plan is broken down for individual partners, and how activities are coordinated in a heterogeneous group.

An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11915034_125.

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Abels, S., Ahlemann, F., Hahn, A., Hausmann, K., Strickmann, J. (2006). PROMONT – A Project Management Ontology as a Reference for Virtual Project Organizations. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Herrero, P. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops. OTM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4277. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11915034_105

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