The Blended Mental Space: erosions as a reason of a project failure

Abstract

The success or failure of a project often depends on implicit reasons that severally can be ambiguities in itself and, in aggregate, lead to risks. There are many scientific works devoting to the risk study and assessment in a project and approaches have been developed to prevent and combat them. These studies have a reflection in various project management methodologies. However, not at all uncertainties can be described clearly and using formalization approaches. According to the last studies, the human factor is a leading factor among the success criteria. In other words, the leading criteria of project success are in the People area of the ICB 4.0 standard. The Blended Mental Space (hereafter - the BMS) is a space that is providing interaction of all criteria, appearing at the time of project initialization and disappears at its completion. There are some scientific works are devoted to the study of the BMS and the definition of aspects that influence project success. The focus of this paper will be shifted to the area of study of factors that may affect adversely on the BMS and lead to project failure. Such uncertainties are in the area of “soft” criteria. The influence of these “soft” criteria can make a comparison with the influence of chronic diseases: slowly and constantly, and as a result, they lead to the serious problems and irreversible processes upon the condition of the absence of preventive permanent treatment measures.