Megaproject Management: Lessons on Risk and Project Management from the Big Dig

by Virginia A. Greiman

Project management lessons learned on the Big Dig, America's biggest megaproject, by a core member responsible for its daily operations

In Megaproject Management, a central member of the Big Dig team reveals the numerous risks, challenges, and accomplishments of the most complex urban infrastructure project in the history of the United States. Drawing on personal experience and interviews with project engineers, executive oversight commission officials, and core managers, the author, a former deputy counsel and risk manager for the Big Dig, develops new insights as she describes the realities of day-to-day management of the project from a project manager's perspective.

The book incorporates both theory and practice and is therefore highly recommended to policymakers, academics, and project management practitioners. Focusing on lessons learned, this insightful coursebook presents the Big Dig as a massive case study in the management of risk, cost, and schedule, particularly the interrelation of technical, legal, political, and social factors. It provides an analysis of the difficulties in managing megaprojects during each phase and over the life span of the project, while delivering useful lessons on why projects go wrong and what can be done to prevent project failure. It also offers new ideas to enhance project management performance and innovation in our global society.

This unique

Defines megaproject characteristics and frameworks Reviews the Big Dig's history, stakeholders, and governance Examines the project's management scope, scheduling, and cost management-including project delays and cost overruns Analyzes the Big Dig's risk management and quality management Reveals how to build a sustainable project through integration and change introduction

794 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 21, 2013

About the author

Assistant Professor Greiman has published and lectured extensively on international law, economic development, project management and finance, and international business transactions. She is a recognized expert internationally on megaproject management and infrastructure development, privatization and project finance, corporate reorganizations, cybertrafficking and international commercial transactions. Greiman has served in several high-level appointments for the United States government, including as United States Trustee for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and international legal counsel to the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development on privatization projects in Eastern and Central Europe. She has part-time teaching and academic appointments at both Boston University and Harvard University Law Schools.

Reviews

[AARON MARTINEZ CASTILLO · Rating 3 out of 5]

An schoolar book, it exemplify how you could manage a huge project taking in account all the activities