International Journal of Managing Projects in Business: Volume 10 Issue 2

Editorial

Nathalie Drouin

Coping with lack of authority: Extending research on project governance with a practice approach

Markus Hällgren, Marcus Lindahl

The purpose of this paper is to identify and explore alternative coping strategies that may compensate for the limitations of weak governance structure in a product development…

Project governance in public sector agile software projects

Teemu Lappi, Kirsi Aaltonen

Agile methodologies are widely used to manage the technical complexity of software development, and project governance can provide feasible means of organizational support for…

Modelling project complexity

Asbjørn Rolstadås, Per Morten Schiefloe

The purpose of this paper is to enhance the understanding of what project complexity is, what drivers and factors that influence complexity and how consequences for organizational…

Managing uncertainty for sustainability of complex projects

Tove Brink

The purpose of this paper is to reveal how management of uncertainty can enable sustainability of complex projects.

Ethical behaviour in the design phase of AEC projects

Jardar Lohne, Fredrik Svalestuen, Vegard Knotten, Frode Olav Drevland, Ola Lædre

The purpose of this paper is to report on studies on the ethics in the design phase in Norwegian construction projects. The ambition is to establish a descriptive picture of…

In the eye of the beholder: Opening the black box of the classification process and demystifying classification criteria selection

Pooria Niknazar, Mario Bourgault

Projects have high stakes in how they are categorized. The final place of a project within a classification scheme depends on the inclusion or exclusion of certain classification…

Optimism bias within the project management context: A systematic quantitative literature review

James Prater, Konstantinos Kirytopoulos, Tony Ma

One of the major challenges for any project is to prepare and develop an achievable baseline schedule and thus set the project up for success, rather than failure. The purpose of…

A robust algorithm for project portfolio selection problem using real options valuation

Mahsa Montajabiha, Alireza Arshadi Khamseh, Behrouz Afshar-Nadjafi

The principal concern of organization managers in the global rivalry of commerce environment is how to select the project portfolio among available projects. In this matter…

What is project alliance capability?

Anna-Maija Hietajärvi, Kirsi Aaltonen, Harri Haapasalo

Project alliancing – a project delivery model used in delivering complex projects – demands new organizational capabilities for successful project implementation. The purpose of…

Ambiguity acceptance and translation skills in the project management literature

Karmin Gray, Frank Ulbrich

The project management literature provides a fairly united picture of the importance of projects being successful. One success factor is represented by project managers…