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Impact of Project Management Strategies and Project Complexity on Project Success
- 1 Putra Business School, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
- 2 Putra Business School, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
- 3 Putra Business School, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
- 4 Institute of Business Management Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad
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Abstract
This article aims to investigate how project management affects project fulfillment. Connecting skills to the project environment is key to project management skills. The abilities of project managers to lead successful activities have been examined in numerous studies. The project manager wants to hold on to rigid skills that can be applied to the project's circumstances. The relationship between the project supervisor and the project group, which encourages experimentation and learning, affects how strong their skills are. A thorough literature study reveals the lack of agreement on project complexity as a moderator between project success and project management skills, which also offers a comprehensive overview and critical analysis of the underlying ideas. This investigation's main goal moved to determine project success outcomes by considering project complexity as a moderator between project management skills and project success. To do so, this analysis looks at accumulated data on the complexity of and problem management abilities. The statistics were gathered through online surveys, and the results were examined using logistic regression models. How well project management understanding predicts project fulfillment, the original research question, has been answered. The findings demonstrate that combining project management abilities with problem complexity can help anticipate project success, which was to be expected. There was no statistically significant association between effective project management and unsuccessful projects.
Keywords
project management, project evaluation, project management skills, project complexity, project success
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Majeed,M.I.;Mahmood,R.;Som,H.M.;Munir,S. (2023). Impact of Project Management Strategies and Project Complexity on Project Success. Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences,6,283-294.
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