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Project Management in 2016 Olympic Games

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The main goal of this paper is to analyses “Which project management model best fit a mega event like the 2016 Olympic Games?” The organizations which participate in the Olympic Games project management in Rio are under the pressure of external scenarios of uncertainty and also several constraints to manage all the Olympic resources and need to deal with limitations of costs and time—the model adopted can help to achieve a major success of the event. According to studies made on the past, Olympics Project Managers face various challenges and the models adopted can help to achieve the ambitious goals of the event. The main finding of this research is that project management maturity models benefits management approaches and reinforce the definition and the use of strategic plans enhancing the control techniques of project management and also that a sustainability dimension is necessary to orchestrate the successful completion of a project with the amplitude of Olympic Games.

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  1. CIEO, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

    Maria José Sousa

  2. Universidade Europeia, Estrada da Correia, 53, 1500-210, Lisboa, Portugal

    Maria José Sousa

  3. Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    Maria José Sousa & Fabiano Lima

  4. Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina, Tubarão, Brazil

    Jair Martins

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  1. DEI/FCT, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. ISEGI,, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ana Maria Correia

  3. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  4. DSI, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

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  5. Rua Dom Manoel de Medeiros, s/n, DoisIrm, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

    Marcelo Mendonça Teixeira

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Sousa, M.J., Lima, F., Martins, J. (2016). Project Management in 2016 Olympic Games. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Mendonça Teixeira, M. (eds) New Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 444. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31232-3_48

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