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Project Management Research—The Challenge and Opportunity:
Aaron J. Shenhar,Dov Dvir +1 more
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The statistics of project success suggest that most projects still fail and many projects... as discussed by the authors, however, irony suggests that most project success suggests that very few projects still succeed, while many projects fail.Abstract:
Project management is one of the fastest growing disciplines in organizations today. However, ironically, the statistics of project success suggests that most projects still fail and many projects ...read more
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Different stakeholder groups and their perceptions of project success
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Web of Science search engine and Bibexcel analysis functions to determine key literature related to project success and identified perceptions by senior management, project core team and project recipient stakeholder groups.
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Risk and risk management in software projects: A reassessment
TL;DR: It was found that software projects do not conform to a uniform structure, as assumed in much of the literature, and this introduces variations in the risk and project management challenges they face.
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Pluralism in Project Management: Navigating the Crossroads of Specialization and Fragmentation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the literature published over the last five decades in 30 leading management and organization journals and propose a categorization of the published articles into seven schools of thought: Optimization School, Factor School, Contingency School, Behaviour School, Governance School, Relationship School and Decision School.
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Reinventing Project Management: The Diamond Approach to Successful Growth and Innovation
TL;DR: This book closes an open managerial gap between strategic planning and project management and provides a tool that crosses the boundary from strategic managers to project managers in a discussion that helps them address what needs to be considered before a project is launched.
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Construction client multi-projects – A complex adaptive systems perspective
TL;DR: Recent theoretical developments in the philosophy of complexity theory provide a basis for gaining insight into the proposition that multi-project management is neither an extension nor a scaled up version of single project management.
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TL;DR: Abrahamson et al. as discussed by the authors proposed an evolutionary model of technological change in which a technological breakthrough, or discontinuity, initiates an era of intense technical variation and selection, culminating in a single dominant design.
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Two Decades of Research and Development in Transformational Leadership
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Accelerating Adaptive Processes: Product Innovation in the Global Computer Industry
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare two theoretical models for firms' achieving fast adaptation through product innovation and conclude that using an experiential strategy of multiple design iterations, extensive testing, frequent project milestones, a powerful project leader, and a multifunctional team accelerates product development.