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Using a didactical car-driving metaphor, this paper deals with a proactive way of ‘driving’ projects with high uncertainty. The centrality of problem complexity and problem uncertainty are demonstrated, the mapping of these to human cognition is reviewed, and the car-driving metaphor as ‘driving’ project management is developed. The MadPRYX ‘suite’ develops didactic car-driving models and practical Scoreboard metrics, looking for successful equilibrium of effectiveness-efficiency, conditioned by the levels and types of complexity and uncertainty in the project process and its environment
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Fernández-Diego, M., Marcelo-Cocho, J. (2008). ‘Driving’ IS projects. In: Avison, D., Kasper, G.M., Pernici, B., Ramos, I., Roode, D. (eds) Advances in Information Systems Research, Education and Practice. IFIP WCC TC8 2008. IFIP – The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 274. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09682-7-9_9
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