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Project Management Journal
Planning, Tracking, and Reducing a Complex Project's Value at Risk
Uncertainty, risk, and rework make it extremely challenging to meet goals and deliver anticipated value in complex projects, and conventional techniques for planning and tracking earned value do not…
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Project Management Journal
Dealing with Uncertainty and Ambiguity in a Complex Project
In 2008, the Quebec government approved a CAD$2.3 billion budget to build a modern academic healthcare facility that would provide state-of-the-art, highly specialized healthcare services to the…
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Project Management Journal
The Three Secrets of Megaproject Success
Past studies have often voiced concern that important megaprojects have repeatedly failed due to extensive overruns, misunderstanding of expectations, or both. In this article, we contend that this…
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Project Management Journal
The Successful Delivery of Megaprojects
Megaprojects are often associated with poor delivery performance and poor benefits realization. This article provides a method of identifying, in a quantitative and rigorous manner, the…
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Project Management Journal
The Role Of Co-Creation In Enhancing Explorative And Exploitative Learning In Project-Based Settings
We study how co-creation practices influence explorative and exploitative learning in five collaborative construction projects with partnering arrangements. Drawing on a longitudinal case study, our…
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Project Management Journal
Tension Awareness of Stakeholders in Large Technology Projects
This article analyzes the tensions evolving from project management dilemmas and how they relate to stakeholders in large technology projects. The study addresses an organization-wide electronic…
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Project Management Journal
Project management between will and representation
This article challenges some deep-rooted assumptions of project management. Inspired by the work of the German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer, it calls for looking at projects through two…
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Project Management Journal
Managing risks in complex projects
Dealing effectively with risks in complex projects is difficult and requires management interventions that go beyond simple analytical approaches. This is one finding of a major field study into…
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Project Management Journal
Can project management learn anything from studies of failure in complex systems?
Over the past two decades, technology systems have evolved into highly complex tools. And the effort to develop each new generation involves increasingly complex risks that could--if the system…
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Project Management Journal
Project management under uncertainty
Working on large, complex projects, such as those in the technology fields, often involves high levels of uncertainty in relation to time, cost, and scope as well as uncontrollable external forces…
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