Towards a Data Envelopment Analysis Approach for the Front-End Development of Renewable Energy Projects in the Netherlands

This paper suggests a novel perspective on project management and it’s value. Project management is widely accepted as a relevant perspecti’ve on the development of large engineering projects. Over time it proved its value and through incremental improvement has developed further. Although often applied for the development of projects project...

Fostering the reuse of knowledge in project based organizations

In the contemporary business world, more and more organizations especially in the engineering domain structure their working processes around projects. These organizations are called project-based-organizations (PBOs) and have established distinct work processes to successfully execute the projects that they undertake. The working processes in...

The application of Value Improving Practices: Team integration pays off!

Submitted paper to: EURAM 2011 Track 30: Project Organizing

Managing project complexity: A study into adapting early project phases to improve project performance in large engineering projects

Engineering projects become increasingly more complex and project complexity is assumed to be one of the causes for projects being delivered late and over budget. However, what this project complexity actually comprised of was unclear. To improve the overall project performance, this study focuses on identifying the potential causes of...

Critical Front-End Development Activities for Engineering Projects

Putting effort into the early project phases in order to prepare optimally for project delivery is labelled Front-End development (FED). For projects, an optimum has to be found where FED is performed in a way that it increases the chance on successful project delivery, without losing cost competiveness. The results of this research can be used...