Chair of Operations Management

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Tobias Lieberum honored as Outstanding Contributor to the IPMA Global Research Awards 2022

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Tobias Lieberum, a PhD student at the Chair of Operations Management, wins the title of Outstanding Contribution to the IPMA Graduate Research Award 2022 for his paper “Should We All Work in Sprints? How Agile Project Management Improves Performance”.

The IPMA Research Awards are organized by the International Project Management Associations (IPMA) to promote excellent research on project management. With these annual awards IPMA recognizes recent outstanding contributions to the development of the field and profession project management through professionally conducted research. Twenty judges were involved in the evaluation of the applications according to the following criteria: research problem, research processes, research results, research people. Each application has been evaluated by three judges. The results of their work allowed for the selection of potential finalists in each category. The final ranking was made during a virtual judges meeting.

Tobias Lieberum’s paper, published in the journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, shows: People spend too much time on early tasks when they are free to progress at their pace. Agile sprints mitigate this effect. The article was co-authored with Sebastian Schiffels of Lancaster University Management School and Rainer Kolisch of the TUM School of Management at the Technical University of Munich.

IPMA is a federation of more than 70 member associations. IPMA has associations in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Australia, and North and South America. Through IPMA, project management practitioners from all cultures and all parts of the world can network, share ideas, and move our practice and our stakeholders forward through effective collaboration and cooperation.

Find out more at: https://awards.ipma.world/news/ipma-global-research-awards-winners-2022/