10EXPERIMENT-BASED RESEARCH IN PROJECT AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

Catherine P. Killen

DOI: 10.4324/9781003469513-12

Introduction

Improving project and portfolio management performance require understanding the factors that affect the outcomes and identifying the changes that can be implemented in practice. Organisation-based research can provide valuable insights into the relevant factors and suggested changes; however, it is difficult to measure the effect of such changes because each organisational environment is different, and many uncontrollable factors influence project performance. While research in organisational settings is necessary for practice-based disciplines such as project management (PM) and project portfolio management (PPM), ...

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