Project Estimating
Estimating is a critical part of project planning, involving a quantitative estimate of project costs, resources or duration. One conundrum in estimating, especially for public-sector projects, is that bidders sometimes make overly optimistic estimates in order to win the business.
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Project Management Journal
The Relationship Between Uncertainty and Task Execution Strategies in Project Management
Common project management methodologies do not consider project task uncertainty for determining appropriate task execution strategies.
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Project Management Journal
The Dark Side of Projects
This article presents the dark side of projects, engaging project scholars and practitioners in discussions about sensitive, confusing, uncomfortable, challenging, and questionable phenomena.
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Project Management Journal
A Qualitative Analysis of Unethical Behaviors in Projects
This research critically reviewed project ethics under the philosophical paradigm change from modernism to late modernism.
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Project Management Journal
In Praise of Paradox Persistence
By analyzing paradoxes encountered in the construction of the Sydney Opera House project, we discuss how dialogical interactions enable options to emerge in the form of responses that were not…
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Project Management Journal
Developing a Multidimensional Conception of Project Evaluation to Improve Projects
This study aims to explore and define project evaluation and reveal how it can promote continuous improvements within and across projects and organizations.
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