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Project valorisation is paramount for gaining value in an increasingly competitive world. There is evidence that the majority of projects even when they are completed within budget and time fail to valorise (disseminate and exploit) their results so that they can deliver value to the organisation. Projects often have many stakeholders with different requirements and expectations. Identifying and understanding synergies, conflicts and changing requirements hold the key to project success. In this paper we discuss the challenges and failures of lack of valorisation from industry, government, academia and the European Union. Using the VALO project we demonstrate how the integration of the project plan, the quality plan and the sustainability plan started delivering value to a multiplicity of stakeholders throughout the project lifetime and beyond its completion. We propose a meta-framework for this integration taking into account the process maturity of an organisation for successful valorisation of projects.
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Georgiadou, E., Siakas, K., Messnarz, R. (2014). Project Valorisation through Agility and Catering for Stakeholder Expectations. In: Barafort, B., O’Connor, R.V., Poth, A., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 425. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43896-1_19
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