Operation Warp Speed: Projects responding to the COVID-19 pandemic
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has profound socio-economic consequences. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures, so this paper focuses on radical changes to accepted practice in project organizing in response. In particular, we focus on schedule compression to deliver outputs to mitigate th...
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| author | Graham M. Winch Dongping Cao Eunice Maytorena-Sanchez Jeff Pinto Natalya Sergeeva Sujuan Zhang |
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| description | The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has profound socio-economic consequences. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures, so this paper focuses on radical changes to accepted practice in project organizing in response. In particular, we focus on schedule compression to deliver outputs to mitigate the immediate impact of the pandemic on health. In the spirit of engaged scholarship, which is problem-driven rather than theory-driven, we address directly the evidence of what happened in two empirical vignettes and one more substantial case study – the CoronavirusUY app; emergency field hospitals; and vaccine development. We then suggest the implications for project management theory in discussion. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7a567a18401942cf93e09c50cebe73572022-12-21T19:33:57ZengElsevierProject Leadership and Society2666-72152021-12-012100019Operation Warp Speed: Projects responding to the COVID-19 pandemicGraham M. Winch0Dongping Cao1Eunice Maytorena-Sanchez2Jeff Pinto3Natalya Sergeeva4Sujuan Zhang5Alliance Manchester Business School, UKTongji University, ChinaAlliance Manchester Business School, UK; Corresponding author.Penn State, @ Eire, USAUniversity College, London, UKXiamen University, ChinaThe 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has profound socio-economic consequences. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures, so this paper focuses on radical changes to accepted practice in project organizing in response. In particular, we focus on schedule compression to deliver outputs to mitigate the immediate impact of the pandemic on health. In the spirit of engaged scholarship, which is problem-driven rather than theory-driven, we address directly the evidence of what happened in two empirical vignettes and one more substantial case study – the CoronavirusUY app; emergency field hospitals; and vaccine development. We then suggest the implications for project management theory in discussion.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666721521000132COVID-19Vaccine developmentProject schedule compressionProject agilitySelectionismProject sponsorship |
| spellingShingle | Graham M. Winch Dongping Cao Eunice Maytorena-Sanchez Jeff Pinto Natalya Sergeeva Sujuan Zhang Operation Warp Speed: Projects responding to the COVID-19 pandemic Project Leadership and Society COVID-19 Vaccine development Project schedule compression Project agility Selectionism Project sponsorship |
| title | Operation Warp Speed: Projects responding to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_full | Operation Warp Speed: Projects responding to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_fullStr | Operation Warp Speed: Projects responding to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Operation Warp Speed: Projects responding to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_short | Operation Warp Speed: Projects responding to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_sort | operation warp speed projects responding to the covid 19 pandemic |
| topic | COVID-19 Vaccine development Project schedule compression Project agility Selectionism Project sponsorship |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666721521000132 |
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