Locatelli, G orcid.org/0000-0001-9986-2249 (2021) Is Your Organization Ready For Managing "Back-End" Projects. IEEE Engineering Management Review, 49 (3). pp. 175-181. ISSN 0360-8581
Abstract
The vast majority of projects deals with the planning and delivery "front-end", i.e. the creation of new assets, goods and services, including building infrastructure, developing new drugs, coding software etc. However, more and more projects need to deal with their "back-ends", such as decommissioning infrastructure, withdrawing dangerous drugs from the market and eliminating malign software. While the "front-end" of projects, and organizations involved in projects, have been empirically investigated for millennia (and academically for decades), the "back-ends" of projects is a novel field with extremely limited practical and academic knowledge. The management of "back-ends" projects are peculiar since it lacks traditional project motivations (e.g. usually there is not cash flow at the end of a "back-end" project), the stakeholders are different (e.g. drug addicts and not patients), and the organizations involved might have very different agendas (e.g. criminal organizations). This paper discusses the relevance and peculiarities of "back-end projects" and provides key insights to manage them.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Project Management, Decision making, Decommissioning, Back-end, Infrastructure |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Civil Engineering (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jul 2021 14:56 |
Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2022 11:07 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
Identification Number: | 10.1109/emr.2021.3098064 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:176409 |