<font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"> <font size="2" face="Courier New">Call for Papers on IT Project Management
due January 31, 2012</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">Special Issue on IT Project Management
for the The International Journal of Information Technology & Decision
Making (IJITDM) </font>
<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">Sponsored by the Association for Information
Systems Special Interest Group on IT Project Management (SIGITProjMgmt)</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">Information technology project management
research has evolved from engineering disciplines. Certain aspects
of managing information technology projects present challenges that are
different from other types of projects undertaken by an organization. Furthermore,
given the large expense taken by organizations to implement both hardware
and software within the firm, organizations want better techniques and
knowledge about how to manage these projects. This special issue
solicits research in IT project management that focuses on problems that
cover a large range of topics that cut across many IT areas. Themes
that could be explored, but are not restricted to, include:</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">· virtual project management
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<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">· agile project management</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">· project quality metrics</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">· project management standards</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">· best practices in project management</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">· project management methodology
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<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">· project success</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">· distributed project management
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<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">· managing project portfolios</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">· project leadership</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">Important Dates</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">· January 31, 2012: Submission deadline</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">· March 30, 2012: First round of decisions
based on IJITDM reviewer recommendations</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">· May 31, 2012: Revisions due</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">· July 31, 2012: Second round decisions
based on IJITDM reviewer recommendations</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">· September 30, 2012: Second round
revisions due</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">· October 31, 2012: Camera-ready version
submitted</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">· March 2013: Special issue publication
date</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">IJITDM Format Requirements</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">Authors must submit original manuscripts
in MS Word format, double spaced. References should be complete with all
necessary bibliographic data. In-line citations should be in author-year
format (Author Year). Upon acceptance of the manuscript, detailed guidelines
for preparing a camera ready version of the manuscript will be sent to
the authors.</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">Submitted papers should not have been
previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication
elsewhere.</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">All manuscripts should be submitted
online at Editorial Manager (EM), of International Journal of Information
Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM): </font><a target="_blank" href="http://www.editorialmanager.com/ijitdm/"><font size="2" face="Courier New">http://www.editorialmanager.com/ijitdm/</font></a><font size="2" face="Courier New">.
When submitting the manuscript please select the "Special Issue Paper"
as article type, and also select "Special Issue on IT Project Management"
as Section/Category. Additional IJITDM information and previously
published papers can be obtained at </font><a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldscinet.com/ijitdm/mkt/guidelines.shtml"><font size="2" face="Courier New">http://www.worldscinet.com/ijitdm/mkt/guidelines.shtml</font></a><font size="2" face="Courier New">.
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<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">If you have questions, please contact
the special issue editors:</font>
<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">Deepak Khazanchi (University of Nebraska
at Omaha), khazanchi@mail.unomaha.edu </font>
<br><font size="2" face="Courier New">Stacie Petter (University of Nebraska
at Omaha), spetter@mail.unomaha.edu </font><div></div></font>