Abstract: Project management has spread around the world to become what it is today, that is to say a set of theories, principles, methodologies and practices. Past research works argue for a paradigm shift so that one could focus more on project complexity to manage projects more efficiently. However, there is a lack of consensus on what project complexity is, which makes it difficult to under...

The world economic image has been changing. It has been a long time since the sole important resources of an organization were financial and physical. In the newly-emerged global economy, knowledge and information are accounted as the most significant resources in order to produce value. Obviously, as the demand for knowledge to reach success is increasing day by day, maintenance and enhancemen...

The current paper investigates whether the shift to more integration, that is use of concurrent engineering process and cross-functional teams organisation, in new product development (NPD) projects is suitable for all types of projects regardless of their level of “project complexity”. The current paper addresses this research question in two steps. First, a formal framework of “project comple...

This work aims to help managers anticipate, detect, and keep under control complex situations before facing negative consequences. article explores complexity modeling theory develops a framework associated score sheet measure project complexity. A comprising ninety factors is presented divided into seven categories: stakeholders, team, governance, product, characteristics, resources, environme...

The dynamism and volatility of a project or a portfolio (frequently changing scope, objectives, priorities, resource allocation, etc) imply that the project can no longer be managed and governed with static or predefined metrics, methodologies, and best practices. As the environment in which a project has to be managed becomes uncertain and unpredictable, it becomes necessary, if not mandatory,...

Diversity of viewpoint is discussed as a major determinant of system complexity – in particular as affecting project complexity during design, development, manufacture and roll-out. The viewpoints of particular interest are those arising from diversity of implementation technology, and from multiple specialist engineering disciplines. The paper discusses the historical treatment of complexity i...

Project scheduling has received a growing attention from researchers for the last decades in order to propose models and methods to tackle scheduling problems for real-size projects. In this paper, we consider the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP), which consists in scheduling the activities in order to minimize the project duration in presence of precedence and resource c...