Industrial Megaprojects

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

Why Megaprojects Fail So Often- Seven Key Mistakes 1

Part 1 Success Is Elusive 9

1 Megaprojects- Creators and Destroyers of Capital 11

2 Data and Methods 25

3 Project Outcomes and Trends 45

4 The Roads to Ruin- The Mechanics of Failure (and Success) 71

Part 2 The Three Work Streams 95

5 An Introduction to the Shaping Stream 101

6 Shaping Step 1- Understand the Context 109

7 The Next Steps- From Context Knowledge to Project Shape 135

8 Devising the Shaping Strategy 169

9 Basic Data Are Basic 207

10 Project Definition- Getting the Front- End Right 235

Part 3 People Do Projects 297

11 Megaprojects Teams 299

12 Organizing Megaproject Teams 339

Part 4 Getting It Done 353

13 Contracting 355

14 The Control of Execution Risk 407

Part 5 Finishing Up 435

15 Project Governance 437

16 Focus on Success 449

Glossary and Acronyms 459

Index 463

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