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<?php
$myText = "A survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers reveals that there is a strong correlation between project management maturity and project performance. PricewaterhouseCoopers intended to study the best practices of project management. In this survey, two hundred responses were collected from a diverse group of small to medium-sized companies of thirty different countries across the globe. The participants in this survey included top manager (33%), senior manager (32%), project manager (28%), and project team manager (7%).<br><br>***
The survey unveiled the following findings:<br>
1.0 High maturity level delivers high project performance<br>
There is a positive correlation between project management maturity level and project performance. Project management process maturity (PM) model adopts a systematic approach to establish an organization’s current project management level. Each maturity level consists of major project management characteristics, factors, and processes (Kwak et al, 2002). Maturity level is broken down into unreliable processes, informal processes, standardized processes, monitored processes, and optimized processes.<br><br>***
2.0 Current overall maturity level falls under informal processes (2.5)<br>
The current maturity level for most companies is around 2.5, denoting the level of informal process that is not yet institutionalized. In other words, a formally approved project management methodology is missing and therefore project participants do not adopt appropriate standards during the projects.<br><br>***
3.0 Organizations seek to improve their maturity levels<br>
About 60% of the companies wish to attain a higher maturity level. Although it is not pragmatism to increase their maturity level by more than one level, 36% of the companies want to do so. Elevating to a higher level (e.g.: increasing from level 2 to level 3) requires a very rigorous effort; any standard process must adequately address the needs of the variety of projects that are undertaken in an organization (Grant et. al, 2006).<br><br>***
4.0 Imbalanced organization is the culprit of project failures<br>
While missed deadlines and scope changes are frequently cited as reasons for project failures, poor quality of the deliverables and inadequate definitions from stakeholders have the least influence to project failures. Project managers are often the lamb waiting to be slaughtered in most cases of project failure but 59% of reasons attributed to project failures are usually beyond the control of project managers.<br><br>***
5.0 Organizational structure makes or breaks project performance<br>
Organizational structure has great influence to project performance. The survey outlines five organizational types defined by Project Management Institute (PMI): functional, weak matrix, balanced matrix, strong matrix, and projectized. “Projectized” or “strong matrix” structures produce high performance mainly because project managers have more influence in projects and project management is widely identified as a core aspect in the organizations. On the other hand, the “balanced matrix” and “weak matrix” yield poor results.<br><br>***
6.0 Industry, location, and business objectives decide the optimal organization structure<br>
African organizations mainly have functional structure whereas European and the Americans have similar structure spread. Asian organizations, in this regard, mostly employ a strong matrix structure that yields high maturity. Industry wise, public sector uses weak matrix and therefore has low maturity level. Pharmaceutical sector, on the other hand, adopts “balanced matrix”. The highest maturity level belongs to Technology, Information, Communication and Entertainment (TICE) that espouse “strong matrix” structure.<br><br>***
7.0 Investing in staff boosts project performance<br>
60% of the companies do not offer development programme to staff and only 8% of the companies have a standard development programme. The survey reveals that there is a positive correlation between frequent offers of development programme and project performance. In other words, organizations that have a development programme should expect a higher return in project performance.<br><br>***
8.0 Getting your staff certified is a smart move<br>
Having project management certifications has positive influence in maturity level. Only 27% of the companies do not have any type of certifications. Companies that attain higher score in maturity level have certified staff but the opposite is true for the companies that score low in maturity level. Certified staff creates knowledge base in organizations and applies standard project management methodology.<br><br>***
9.0 Change management gives organization a competitive edge<br>
The central idea of any change management system is to anticipate, recognize, evaluate, resolve, document, and learn from conflicts in ways that support the overall viability of the project (Ibbs, 2001). The analysis unveils the fact that there is a clear link between change management and the best performing organizations. 26 out of 27 companies that score the highest in performance employ change management approach.<br><br>***
10.0 External resources are added-value when used in smaller scale<br>
Highest performance is achieved when a rate 25% of external resources is used. A ratio of higher than 25% will not yield higher performance. In some sectors (e.g.: health care), coordination and management of external resources is inherently unstable (Walt et al, 1999). Another interesting point is that the number of external resources varies depending on the company maturity’s level.<br><br>***
11.0 Organization’s maturity level has great influence on the implementation of project management software<br>
Organizations with low maturity level are adversely affected by project management software. Once an organization reaches higher maturity level with institutionalized processes, the implementation of project management software will remarkably augment overall project performance.";
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function main($myText)
{
$total_page = count_page($myText);
$text_array = set_page_array($myText, $total_page);
$index_array = get_breakpoints($text_array, $total_page);
$page = gets_page($total_page);
get_text_page($page, $index_array, $text_array);
print_page_num($index_array, $page);
}
function gets_page($total_page)
{
$page=1;
if (isset ($_REQUEST['page'])) {
if (validate_page($_REQUEST['page'], $total_page)) {
$page = $_REQUEST['page'];
}
}
return $page;
}
function get_text_page($page, $index_array, $text_array)
{
$start_index = $index_array[$page -2];
$end_index = $index_array[$page -1];
if ($page==1) {
$new_text = substr($text_array[0], 0, $index_array[0]); }
elseif ($page==count($text_array)){
$new_text = substr($text_array[$page -2], $start_index).substr($text_array [$page-1] ,0);}
else { $new_text = substr($text_array[$page -2], $start_index).substr($text_array [$page-1] ,0 ,$end_index);}
$new_text = str_replace ("***", "", $new_text);
echo "$new_text"; }
function count_page ($myText)
{
$total_chars = strlen($myText);
$GLOBALS['chars_per_page'] = 1000;
$total_page = intval($total_chars / $GLOBALS['chars_per_page']);
return $total_page;
}
function get_breakpoints ($text_array, $total_page)
{
$page_index = array();
$prev_index = 0;
for ($i=1; $i <= $total_page; $i++)
{
$page = $i;
$end_index = strrpos ($text_array[$i -1], "***");
array_push ($page_index, $end_index);
}
return $page_index;
}
function set_page_array ($myText, $total_page)
{
$chars_per_page =$GLOBALS['chars_per_page'];
$text_array = array();
for ($i=1; $i <= total_page; $i++)
{
$start_index = $chars_per_page * ($i -1);
$end_index = $chars_per_page * $i;
$length = strlen($myText);
$text_array[$i -1] = substr($myText, $start_index, $end_index - $start_index);
if ($i==$total_page)
{
$text_array[$i -1] = substr($myText, $start_index);
}
}
return $text_array;
}
function validate_page ($page, $total_page)
{
if (ereg("[^0-9]", $page)){
return false; }
elseif ($page <=0 || $page > $total_page){
return false;
}
return true;
}
function print_page_num ($total_page_array, $page)
{
$this_page = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
$print_page = "<br><br>";
if ($page >1){
$prev_page = $page -1;
$print_page.= "<a href = '$this_page?page=$prev_page'>Prev</a> ";}
for ($i=1; $i <=count($total_page_array); $i++) {
$print_page .= "<a href = '$this_page?page=$i'>$i</a> "; }
if ($page < count($total_page_array)){
$next_page = $page + 1;
$print_page .= "<a href = '$this_page?page=$next_page'>Next</a> ";}
echo $print_page;
}
?>
The above code is what I have so far. But I cannot get the 1000 character limit per page. To show up. All I get is the page numbers 1-6.
 Thank you for your time.
Red_X_
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Last edited by Red_X_; 03-12-2008 at 08:14 AM..
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