TABLE OF CONTENTS Every advantage is judged in the light of the final issue.
DEMOSTHENES, 384 322 B.C.
In the management of a project, there are likely to be issues or contentions that can have a significant impact on what purposes the project fulfills and how the project should be managed. Often project success or failure rides on these issues and how they have been adequately considered during the planning for and execution of projects. The notion of strategic issues in the management of projects is another area of consideration that broadens the role of the project manager and his or her team members.
In this chapter, the nuclear power industry will be used to provide some representative examples of what is meant by strategic project issues. How to identify issues, how to analyze the significance of issues, and how to manage project strategic issues will be suggested. Once the project team has identified the issue and analyzed its real or potential impact on the project, strategies can be developed and executed to deal with those issues that might have an important impact on the management of the project as well as its outcome. Also some insight into why projects succeed and why they fail because of strategic issues will be provided.
[1]David I.Cleland, Strategic Issues in Project Management, Project Management Journal, March 1989.
The concept of strategic issues has emerged as a way to identify and manage factors and forces that can significantly affect an...
