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Article Change Management, Risk Management, Complexity, Government 1 November 2019

PM Network

Virtual Count

By Parsi, Novid The United States government is about to embark on one of its highest-stakes IT projects ever—the nation's first digital census. Households will complete online surveys, and field workers will…

Article Risk Management, Cost Management, Government 1 April 2019

Project Management Journal

Public-Private Partnerships

By Solheim-Kile, Espen | Lædre, Ola | Lohne, Jardar Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been subjected to considerable public debate. In particular, this debate has concerned PPP financing and its implications. Using insights from agency theory,…

Article Risk Management, Ethics, Government 1 June 2018

Project Management Journal

Corruption as a Source of Government Project Failure in Developing Countries

By Damoah, Isaac Sakyi | Akwei, Cynthia A. | Amoako, Isaac Oduro | Botchie, David This study explores how corruption impacts the failure of government projects in developing countries with evidence from the Ghanaian context.

Article Risk Management, Government 1 June 2017

Project Management Journal

Ex Post Risk Management in Public-Private Partnership Infrastructure Projects

By Xiong, Wei | Zhao, Xianbo | Yuan, Jing-Feng | Luo, Sai Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been widely used in infrastructure development in the past 30 years. However, a number of PPP projects have suffered serious risk scenarios and ended up with…

Article Risk Management, Organizational Culture, Sustainability, Government 1 March 2017

PM Network

Crash and Learn

By Ali, Ambreen Venezuela, once seen as Latin America's economic superstar, is a country in crisis. Collapsing global oil prices have taken their toll: The economy contracted 10 percent in 2016 as inflation…

Conference Paper Risk Management, Scheduling, Agile, Information Technology, Government 29 October 2013

Success with agile in a federal environment

By Garrison, Richard Federal IT projects often run over budget and behind schedule, or fail to deliver promised functionality. Many projects use "grand design' approaches that aim to deliver functionality every few…

Conference Paper Risk Management, Construction, Government 18 July 2012

The ambience of infrastructure construction project alliances in Australia

By Lloyd-Walker, Beverley M. | Walker, Derek H. T. The challenge of delivering construction projects that serve their intended purpose, while meeting value for money criteria, has confronted the construction industry in many countries. The call for…

Article Risk Management, Information Technology, Government March 2012

PM Network

Who's guarding the cloud?

By Fister Gale, Sarah Looking to cut costs and increase efficiencies, organizations are launching projects to move more and more data to remote servers, and as a result, cloud computing is officially mainstream. This…