This research adds a comprehensive way of assessing competencies, contrasting with the usual reductionist approach that uses off-the-shelf instruments. The study reveals 27 competencies to manage complex projects based upon a comprehensive analysis of 22 interviews with senior practitioners...

Recommendations for managing complexity in projects acknowledge different levels of complexity, but often neglect the importance of (non-)repetition. This paper uses the Cynefin framework, structuring problems along the levels of simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic, and the learning loop...

This paper proposes a framework for a collaborative environment formed by a University Research Centre (URC) in Project Studies and external organizations. The framework resulted from a literature review process enriched with empirical data from twenty-eight semi-structured interviews with...

Over the last decade, the ability to manage unforeseen or complex situations has been recognized as a key skill for project managers. Project management has been conceptualized as a problem in information, insofar as project performance depends on the ability to capture the information needed to...

This research identifies 18 main project complexity factors affecting defence projects and four new factors to the literature. Many interdependencies among the factors were identified, suggesting they form a contextualised project complexity network capable of creating emerging behaviours that...

This study aims to investigate the relationship between scope creep and the success of construction projects in the presence of project complexity. This study employed a positivism approach. Therefore, a survey method is used to collect data from 327 Pakistan's construction industry...

Development of healthcare services is a societal responsibility often appearing as major public projects. These types of projects often have a long lifetime expectancy and represent large investments and changes to established welfare systems with a considerable societal impact. This makes...

The current qualitative research methodologies employed to study projects are heavily dependent on interviews, despite data being created across different media in this digital age. Social media, news articles, LinkedIn profiles, WhatsApp groups, etc. can have influence on project stakeholders,...

In this article we present findings from an investigation into the influence of partnering success factors on multi-partner projects’ abilities to meet time schedule, budget, and technical specifications. Our findings are based on the analysis of nation-wide surveys within the engineering...

Understanding job requirements for adaptive performance is increasingly important in light of the pace of change that typifies many workplaces today. The purpose of this research is to investigate job requirements for adaptive performance in a sample set of project managers. The eight-dimension...