Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale

Megaproject

About the project

MEGAPROJECT began it’s work by researching case studies in Working Groups according to sector, namely Energy, Transport, and Cross Sectoral (miscellaneous). These Working groups had all fulfilled their purpose by the end of 2013 and have been replaced with four our current working groups.

Principal Investigator:  Mauro Mancini

Researcher team:  Giorgio Locatelli, Agnese Travaglini

Funders: European Commission – COST Action

Duration: 2013-2015

Partners:  about 90 experts in the EU

KEY RESEARCH QUESTIONS

MEGAPROJECT began it’s work by researching case studies in Working Groups according to sector, namely Energy, Transport, and Cross Sectoral (miscellaneous). These Working groups had all fulfilled their purpose by the end of 2013 and have been replaced with four our current working groups.

  • The INNOMET (Innovation and Methodology) Working Group will adopt, develop and test some new methodologies developed from Megaproject’s work so far using the existing Megaproject Portfolio to derive some robust scientific evidence. It also aims to validate Megaproject’s new experience based approach to research as a gold standard in project management.
  • The MES (Managing External Stakeholders) Working Group is collecting, analysing and classifying relevant stakeholders from the Megaproject Portfolio and looking at their influence in projects, including their response strategies and  their impact on project performance.
  • The RFE (Risk at the Front End) Working Group will look within the Megaproject Portfolio at what the common experience is of risk in megaprojects, how risk at the front end of megaprojects differs from other (non-mega) projects and the possible ways of dealing it.
  • The SPE (Special Project Entities) Working Group is is investigating what influcence a joint venture/consortium created specifically for the project has on the final delivery. It will examine the issues surrounding the establishment and governance of SPEs in projects and demonstrate commonalities and learning points in the creation of SPEs by grouping together experiences from the Megaproject Portfolio.

OUTPUTS & IMPACTS

  • 5 reports (see website)


Publications

  • Maxim Miterev, Mauro Mancini, Rodney Turner (2017), “Towards a design for the project-based organization”, International Journal of Project Management, Vol.35 (3), Pages 479-491.
  • Travaglini, A., Dunović, I.B., Mancini, M., (2016) “Megaproject case studies: A stakeholder management perspective”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, 8-10 March 2016, pp. 1348-1358.
  • M. Mancini, G. J. L. Micheli, A. Travaglini and G. Gilardone, (2016), “Oil & gas industry perception of modularization barriers and impacts,” IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), Bali, 2016, pp. 1595-1599.
  • Giorgio Locatelli, Mauro Mancini, Erika Romano (2014), “Systems Engineering to improve the governance in complex project environments”, International Journal of Project Management, Vol. 32 (8), Pages 1395-1410.