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Improving the Forecasting Process in Project Control

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Managing the Continuum: Certainty, Uncertainty, Unpredictability in Large Engineering Projects

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Among the typical project management processes, planning plays a decisive role in reducing a project’s uncertainty. Project planning may be thought of as resulting from the interaction of the project team with the project and the project context.

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Caron, F. (2013). Improving the Forecasting Process in Project Control. In: Managing the Continuum: Certainty, Uncertainty, Unpredictability in Large Engineering Projects. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5244-4_5

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