On Time and On Budget: Project Management Collection (4 Books)
by Harvard Business Review, Joe Knight, Roger Thomas, Brad Angus, Aaron J. Shenhar
APPENDIX 5A
EMPIRICAL RESULTSFOR PROJECT TECHNOLOGY
THE QUANTITATIVE PARTS of our studies strengthen the validity of the qualitative findings by measuring statistical differences in managerial variables among various project types and identifying contingency trends.26 Table 2 contains information about the differing resources consumed by various project types. It includes the descriptive statistics for four levels of technological uncertainty. The scale value associated with budget was from 1 (less than $100,000) to 6 (more than $1 billion). The project’s duration scale value was from 1 (less than six months) to 6 (more than eight years). The other two variables were the average number of employees during execution and the percentage of people ...
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