Abstract
The project complexity has a negative influence upon project management process particularly on the project performance. The lack of consensus on project complexity is a crucial problem as project complexity is closely correlated with the project management process as well as the project management performance. Therefore,the understanding of project complexity is of significant importance to address the problem of project management performance. Our extensive literature review enlightened the lack of consensus on project complexity till date and provided a broader view and critical analysis of its underlying concepts. The intention of this paper is to examine the project complexity factors on the project management performance in Malaysia and to provide a review of project complexity and to stimulate debate on this controversial topic. The data was analyzed for a total of 101 respondents involved in this study. Theresults indicated that there is a lack of complexity during understanding and managing project performance. It is concluded that the concept of project complexity is warrents further consideration.
Highlights
Complexity is considered an essential factor in the field of project management
It is worth mentioning that the complexity can negatively influence a project performance as well as project outcomes asthe properties emerging from complexity can create certain new prospects
All KMO values for the individual item (> 0.90) were over 0.5 and the KaiserMeyer-Olkin Measure (KMO) was 0.81, indicating that the data was sufficient for Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA)
Summary
Complexity is considered an essential factor in the field of project management. The characteristics and nature of project complexity is a controversial debate. While several factors are considered as drivers of project complexity, the studies investigating those are scarce. The term “Complexity” is not clearly defined in the literature, instead authors have suggested to pay more attention towards defining and managing the complex projects. It is considered that the project performance is closely related to project complexity. The project complexity with a firm definition should be precisely measured in order to achieve effective management of projects. It is better to sustain and understand complexity in the project context during project management rather than reducing or avoiding it altogether
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