Improving Quote Preparation in Project Management with Information Demand Patterns

• Among the many activities to be performed in the context of managing research and development projects preparing a quote for a call for tender can be considered as in particular information-intense. Some industrial methods and standards support the implementation of well-defined and efficient project management (PM). However, these guidelines primarily focus on work procedures and are not very detailed for quote preparation. This paper contributes to the area by proposing information demand patterns as a means to capture organizational knowledge about the desired information flow in project management with specific focus on quote preparation. The intention is to avoid wrong decisions, delayed actions and missing information in quotes caused by insufficient information supply. The contributions of the paper are (1) the concept of information demand pattern in the context of PM, (2) the information demand pattern for the role of a “quote responsible”, and (3) lessons learned from validation.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Datorsystem (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Computer Systems (hsv//eng)

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