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...
by Mounir Ajam | Mar 19, 2019 | Organizational Project Management
I am writing this post, including some personal background information. I write to the attention of senior executives in organizations that are leading large projects, capital projects, and mega projects. You are my audience if you are an executive in what we call...
by Mounir Ajam | Mar 10, 2019 | Human Aspects of Project Management
We often see posts that tell us about the role of project manager, with a list of responsibilities. These posts often appear to be by “experts” and the content is presented with certainty. In other words, the post might be erroneous or present the role...
