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Project Management Journal
Protecting American Soldiers
The protection of American soldiers in combat was a top priority for senior leaders in the U.S. Army, Defense Department, and Congress. The Defense Department committed considerable resources and…
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Project Management Journal
History, practices, and future of earned value management in government
Earned value management (EVM) is a management methodology for integrating scope, schedule, and resources, and for measuring project performance and progress. The goal of this research is to explore…
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Project Management Journal
Knowledge maturity as a means to support decision making during product-service systems development projects in the aerospace sector
Streamlining new product development forces companies to make decisions on preliminary information. This article considers this challenge within the context of project management in the aerospace…
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Project Management Journal
Causal inferences on the cost overruns and schedule delays of large-scale U.S. federal defense and intelligence acquisition programs
A study was undertaken to understand why cost overruns and schedule delays have occurred and continue to occur on large-scale U.S. Department of Defense and intelligence community programs. Analysis…
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Project Management Journal
Best project management and systems engineering practices in the preacquisition phase for federal intelligence and defense agencies
Recent studies have shown that project managers are more likely to deliver projects that meet schedule, budget, and scope targets when they first plan the project before initiating implementation.…
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Project Management Journal
Formulation of financial valuation methodologies for NASA's human spaceflight projects
The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is continually evaluating proposals to improve its human spaceflight systems. But because of its current restricted budget,…
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Project Management Journal
Measuring performance in new product development projects
Measuring a project team's performance is a complex task involving numerous variables. When the task involves measuring a research and development (R&D) team's effort to develop an innovative new…
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Project Management Journal
Leadership behaviors in matrix environments
Previous studies have identified the behaviors that program managers must possess to succeed in matrix organizations. What is not known are those behaviors which senior managers working within…
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Project Management Journal
Computational modeling of project organizations under stress
An organization's operational structure can either enable or hinder its capability to plan and implement projects. This article examines--via computational models--a study that shows how…
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Project Management Journal
A case study of project and stakeholder management failures
The standard process used by the United States (US) Department of Defense (DOD) to implement its projects is highly complex: It involves numerous and varying structural, behavioral, and…
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