Management of complexity in Norwegian oil & gas projects : an industrial case study
Project Management has for decades been considered as the most valuable contribution to the success of a project. Despite this accepted statement, project management has up to recently been identified with the person named project manager and his technical competence in complex project. Com...
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| author | Deepack, Subbiah |
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| description | Project Management has for decades been considered as the most valuable
contribution to the success of a project. Despite this accepted statement, project
management has up to recently been identified with the person named project
manager and his technical competence in complex project. Complexity of projects
and requirement for timely delivery motivated the offshore oil and gas industry to
establish management tools to support the project manager to succeed.
This principal objective of this thesis is to study project management
complexities, its root causes and suggest ways to improve on Singapore's marine
industry in handling Norwegian oil and gas projects. The marine environment is
extremely dynamic and this has resulted in widespread use of advance techniques
and methodologies to cope with the intense competition of the big players in the
international market. Oil and gas projects today are more complex. Existing
traditional project management tools and techniques alone are not adequate to
successfully manage highly complex projects. Complexity is a major critical project
dimension which provides a basis for determining the appropriate managerial
actions required to make projects successful. This dissertation will assess the
structural, technical, directional and temporal types of complexity and issues related
to managing complex situation in organisational settings. The industrial study has
identified four different types of complexities in project context and analysed each
complexity characteristics to present different management challenges. The
emphasis is to adapt a system approach in front-end development phase of projects
in order to better manage and avoid chaos.
A global awareness is emerging towards the essential need for improved
complexity management to delivery complex projects. Leading complex
projects require an inventive approach to assess project complexity and to deploy
the best techniques to achieve success. The case study captures the most practical
dispute in managing oil and gas projects and provides better solution to deal with
complexity issues while handling projects belonging to Norwegian shelf
continental. The study result presents feasible solutions and recommendations for
complexity issues from which project managers can better address the complex
situations. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/547752023-03-11T17:04:58Z Management of complexity in Norwegian oil & gas projects : an industrial case study Deepack, Subbiah Yeo Khim Teck School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering Project Management has for decades been considered as the most valuable contribution to the success of a project. Despite this accepted statement, project management has up to recently been identified with the person named project manager and his technical competence in complex project. Complexity of projects and requirement for timely delivery motivated the offshore oil and gas industry to establish management tools to support the project manager to succeed. This principal objective of this thesis is to study project management complexities, its root causes and suggest ways to improve on Singapore's marine industry in handling Norwegian oil and gas projects. The marine environment is extremely dynamic and this has resulted in widespread use of advance techniques and methodologies to cope with the intense competition of the big players in the international market. Oil and gas projects today are more complex. Existing traditional project management tools and techniques alone are not adequate to successfully manage highly complex projects. Complexity is a major critical project dimension which provides a basis for determining the appropriate managerial actions required to make projects successful. This dissertation will assess the structural, technical, directional and temporal types of complexity and issues related to managing complex situation in organisational settings. The industrial study has identified four different types of complexities in project context and analysed each complexity characteristics to present different management challenges. The emphasis is to adapt a system approach in front-end development phase of projects in order to better manage and avoid chaos. A global awareness is emerging towards the essential need for improved complexity management to delivery complex projects. Leading complex projects require an inventive approach to assess project complexity and to deploy the best techniques to achieve success. The case study captures the most practical dispute in managing oil and gas projects and provides better solution to deal with complexity issues while handling projects belonging to Norwegian shelf continental. The study result presents feasible solutions and recommendations for complexity issues from which project managers can better address the complex situations. Master of Science (Systems & Project Management) 2013-08-13T03:32:47Z 2013-08-13T03:32:47Z 2012 2012 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/54775 en 108 p. application/pdf |
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| title | Management of complexity in Norwegian oil & gas projects : an industrial case study |
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| title_short | Management of complexity in Norwegian oil & gas projects : an industrial case study |
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