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Governance And Support In The Sponsorship Of Projects And Programs, Lynn Crawford, Terry Cooke-Davies, Brian Hobbs, Les Labuschagne, Kaye Remington, Ping Chen
Governance And Support In The Sponsorship Of Projects And Programs, Lynn Crawford, Terry Cooke-Davies, Brian Hobbs, Les Labuschagne, Kaye Remington, Ping Chen
Lynn Crawford
Recent research has shown that project failure is often not directly attributable to the performance of project managers and project teams. Sometimes, project failure is caused by contextual factors, such as the breakdown of sponsor governance and support. This paper examines a research study looking at the governance and support issues involved in sponsoring projects and programs, noting the role a project sponsor must play to provide a project's required governance and support. In doing so, it discusses how the international standards for managing projects and the field's recent research perceive the project sponsor's role, particularly as it relates to …
Project Manager Or Change Manager? Who Should Be Managing Organizational Change?, Anat Hassner-Nahmias, Lynn Crawford
Project Manager Or Change Manager? Who Should Be Managing Organizational Change?, Anat Hassner-Nahmias, Lynn Crawford
Lynn Crawford
Projects are an increasingly popular approach to instituting organizational change. But do project managers possess the skills needed to realize significant change? This paper examines a survey of 134 project professionals who have participated in organizational change projects to determine the competencies needed to manage change projects. In doing so, it looks at how behavior influences organizational change efforts, noting the interventions which organizations must perform to change personnel behaviors. It overviews the literature of using projects and programs to realize organizational change, pointing out the practical shortcomings of project and program managers. It defines the role of change manager, …
We're Not In Kansas Anymore, Toto: Mapping The Strange Landscape Of Complexity Theory, And Its Relationship To Project Management, Terry Cooke-Davies, Svetlana Cicmil, Lynn Crawford, Kurt Richardson
We're Not In Kansas Anymore, Toto: Mapping The Strange Landscape Of Complexity Theory, And Its Relationship To Project Management, Terry Cooke-Davies, Svetlana Cicmil, Lynn Crawford, Kurt Richardson
Lynn Crawford
Recent scientific investigations into the behavior of complex dynamical systems are revealing insights that have major implications for expanding the uncodified, prevailing Cartesian/Newton/Enlightenment paradigm which underpins project management practice and research, insights amounting to new ways of thinking and talking about managing complexity and managing projects in ways that may resolve the intractable problems plaguing certain areas of project management. This paper examines a conceptual framework for understanding the complex responsive processes of relating (CRPR), a means of talking about how human beings interact and learn and how their interactions evolve over time and across space, discussing it specifically in …
Governance And Support In The Sponsoring Of Projects And Programs, Lynn Crawford, Terry Cooke-Davies, Brian Hobbs, Les Labuschagne, Kaye Remington, Ping Chen
Governance And Support In The Sponsoring Of Projects And Programs, Lynn Crawford, Terry Cooke-Davies, Brian Hobbs, Les Labuschagne, Kaye Remington, Ping Chen
Lynn Crawford
Several factors have combined to draw attention to the importance of sponsoring projects and programs. One factor is that after several decades of attempting to improve success rates of projects by focusing on project-based management and the project management competence of practitioners, convincing evidence demonstrates that success or failure of projects is not entirely within the control of the project manager and project team. Contextual issues are crucial in influencing the progress and outcomes of projects, and a key theme that has emerged is the importance of top management support. Another factor that has drawn attention to the sponsorship role …
Developing A Basis For Global Reciprocity: Negotiating Between The Many Standards For Project Management, Lynn Crawford, Julien Pollack
Developing A Basis For Global Reciprocity: Negotiating Between The Many Standards For Project Management, Lynn Crawford, Julien Pollack
Lynn Crawford
Professional standards are a significant issue for professions such as IT and Project Management, where certification and licensure are either necessary to practice or to demonstrate individual competence and capability. In many professions there is no basis for international reciprocity of professional standards. This paper documents the development of a standard for global reciprocity between already existing professional standards in the field of Project Management. Data are based on personal involvement by the authors and interviews with participants. This discussion addresses different approaches to standardisation, how common issues in the standardisation process have been addressed, and how the hindering influence …
Project Management Systems: Moving Project Management From An Operational To A Strategic Discipline, Terry Cooke-Davies, Lynn Crawford, Thomas Lechler
Project Management Systems: Moving Project Management From An Operational To A Strategic Discipline, Terry Cooke-Davies, Lynn Crawford, Thomas Lechler
Lynn Crawford
This article illustrates one aspect of the concept of fit between an organization's implementation of project management and its organizational context by exploring how the underlying drivers of an organization's strategy might influence not only the nature of the projects that it undertakes, but also the appropriateness of the arrangements that it makes to manage those projects. Using a model conceptualized from the literature on strategic management, an analysis of four organizations that have made significant investments in project management over the past 5 years supports the hypothesis that the degree of fit between an organization's strategic drivers of value …
Government And Governance: The Value Of Project Management In The Public Sector, Lynn Crawford, Jane Helm
Government And Governance: The Value Of Project Management In The Public Sector, Lynn Crawford, Jane Helm
Lynn Crawford
Governance is an emerging theme that has been associated in the public sector with a real political need to satisfy stakeholders by demonstrating accountability and transparency while effectively implementing policy. Many initiatives relating to governance are generated by a need for improvement of organizational performance and ability to implement and adapt to change. These generally take the form of projects and programs encouraging a variety of project management implementations in the public sector. This article reports on examination of the expectations and realization of value from investment in project management in four Australian public-sector organizations with particular reference to the …
Exploring The Complexity Of Projects: Implications Of Complexity Theory For Project Management Practice, Svetlana Cicmil, Terry Cooke-Davies, Lynn Crawford, Kurt Richardson
Exploring The Complexity Of Projects: Implications Of Complexity Theory For Project Management Practice, Svetlana Cicmil, Terry Cooke-Davies, Lynn Crawford, Kurt Richardson
Lynn Crawford
Exploring the Complexity of Projects: Implications of Complexity Theory for Project Management Practice explores the process and findings of the implications of the complexity theory for project management theory and practice. The golden triangle (project deadline, budget and output) makes the standard definition of project management processes, skills and knowledge paradoxical and divorced from practice. This monograph contains research of management processes and capabilities in innovative project settings and highlights the challenges in contemporary project management practice. This research suggests that in order to define and conceptualize project complexity, the building blocks of project must be more properly defined. These …