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Project Management Journal
Systemic View to Understanding Design Change Causation and Exploitation of Communications and Knowledge
Frequent changes pervasively undermine project schedule performance. Despite voluminous research into project delays, however, the persistence of the problem demands that a systemic approach be…
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Project Management Journal
A Study of the Critical Chain Project Management Method Applied to a Multiproject System
In 1997, Eliyahu Goldratt proposed a method called critical chain project management (CCPM) to minimize the inefficiencies identified in traditional project management. The project management…
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Project Management Journal
Determining Contingencies in the Management of Construction Projects
This research describes the managerial approaches that contractors follow to determine different types of contingencies in construction project management. Two large Spanish general contractors were…
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Project Management Journal
Practical Application and Empirical Evaluation of Reference Class Forecasting for Project Management
Traditionally, project managers produce cost and time forecasts by predicting the future course of specific events. In contrast, reference class forecasting (RCF) bypasses human judgment by basing…
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Project Management Journal
A study on complexity and uncertainty perception and solution strategies for the time/cost trade-off problem
In this article, the Discrete Time/Cost Tradeoff Problem (DTCTP) is revisited in light of a student experiment. Two solution strategies are distilled from the data of 444 participants and are…
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Project Management Journal
Making sense of rework causation in offshore hydrocarbon projects
Retrospective sense making is used to determine how and why rework in offshore hydrocarbon projects occurred. Staff from organizations operating at the blunt end (e.g., clients/design engineers…
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Project Management Journal
A hybrid approach to quantitative software project scheduling within agile frameworks
In this article, the authors focus on the quantitative project scheduling problem in IT companies that apply the agile management philosophy and scrum, in particular. The authors combine…
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Project Management Journal
A new decision making model for subcontractor selection and its order allocation
All experts agree on the importance of subcontracting. The high impact of subcontractors on the construction process means that the selection of subcontractors is a sensitive activity. Previous…
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Project Management Journal
An empirical study of schedule delay causes based on Taiwan's litigation cases
Many uncertainties can cause construction projects to be delayed, resulting in conflicts between the two parties to a construction contract. This paper employs an innovative technique of analyzing…
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Project Management Journal
A Bayesian approach to improve estimate at completion in earned value management
Forecasting represents a core project management process. Estimates at completion in terms of cost and schedule provide essential data and advice to the project team to lead and control the project…
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