by Mounir Ajam | May 19, 2020 | Megaprojects, Risk Management
Part of the following is from our book on Leading Megaprojects, A Tailored Approach. It is about the illusion of risk transfer that project owners might experience as a result of fixed-price contracting. We will first address the culture of fixed-price contracting,...
by Mounir Ajam | Feb 18, 2020 | Megaprojects
Let me start with a few notes and clarifications. We define megaprojects as massive projects with capital costs around US$1 billion and a high level of complexity. Industrial megaprojects seem to perform better than infrastructure megaprojects. However, at best, what...
by Mounir Ajam | Jun 8, 2019 | Megaprojects
The following file includes the challenges that we have identified for megaprojects from observations, experience, literature review, and case studies. The table is from our book, Leading Megaprojects, A Tailored Approach, which is work in progress now....
by Mounir Ajam | May 18, 2019 | Megaprojects, Organizational Project Management, Project Management Maturity, Project Success
Let us repeat the title question: Do project owners need help transforming to lead megaprojects? Studies by the Independent Project Analysis (IPA) and others have clearly identified a few key facts. The facts include project owners that manage their own projects...
by Mounir Ajam | May 13, 2019 | Megaprojects
In the previous post, we wrote explaining why we are writing a book about megaprojects. In this post, I will share one of the chapters that discuss two megaprojects. These megaprojects share a lot of similarities but different outcomes. This chapter is from my...
by Mounir Ajam | Apr 22, 2019 | Megaprojects
We define megaprojects as massive projects with capital cost around US$1 billion and a high level of complexity. Industrial megaprojects seem to perform better than infrastructure megaprojects. However, at best, what we have seen reported is 35% success rate on the...
