House of Project Complexity - Understanding Complexity in Large Infrastructure Projects

D. Lessard, Vivek Sakhrani, Roger Miller
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This paper describes our conceptualization of complexity in large infrastructure projects. Since complexity itself is an emergent concept that is hard to pin down, we focus on the relationship between various project features and properties associated with complexity such as difficulty, outcome variability and non-linearity, and (non) governability. We propose a combined structural and process-based theoretical framework for understanding contributors to complexity—the ‘House of Project Complexity’ (HoPC). The formulation of the HoPC draws from a rich projects literature and is developed iteratively by first applying it to two trial samples and then to the main data set of 20 detailed case studies of infrastructure projects prepared for the IMEC study. A main contribution of this work is the conceptual distinction in the HoPC between ‘inherent project features’, ‘architectural features’, and their relationship with project outcomes and emergent properties—the ‘ilities.’ A second contribution is the separa...
项目复杂性之家-了解大型基础设施项目的复杂性
本文描述了我们对大型基础设施项目中复杂性的概念化。由于复杂性本身是一个难以确定的新兴概念,我们将重点关注与复杂性相关的各种项目特征和属性之间的关系,例如难度、结果可变性和非线性以及(非)可治理性。我们提出了一个结合了结构和过程的理论框架来理解复杂性的贡献者——“项目复杂性之家”(HoPC)。HoPC的公式借鉴了丰富的项目文献,并通过首先将其应用于两个试验样本,然后将其应用于为IMEC研究准备的基础设施项目的20个详细案例研究的主要数据集来迭代开发。这项工作的一个主要贡献是HoPC中“固有项目特征”、“建筑特征”之间的概念区别,以及它们与项目成果和紧急属性(即“能力”)的关系。“第二个贡献是……
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