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An Agent-Based Framework For Simulating Socio-Organisational Design Of Large Projects, Ricardo Peculis, Derek Rogers, Peter Campbell

SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers

The success of large projects depends on how people associated in teams and organisations perform their tasks and cooperate to achieve a shared goal. Success depends on an effective socio-organisational design that defines organisational structures; human resources in the form of people's abilities, roles and responsibilities; and establishing processes and contracts that will drive measures of success. Predicting the behaviour of large projects is difficult and the performance of the socio-organisational design is likely to be validated only when it is put in to practice. Simulation offers a way to explore the likely behaviour of social systems without the drawback …