No project is an island: linking projects to history and context

Knowledge formation and learning in the management of projects: A problem solving perspective

“…This also means that training for the operation and maintenance of such complex projects after handover needs to include the elaboration of explicit project knowledge in the form of 'as built' drawings, etc. as well as insights relating to experiential project knowledge, which is more difficult to access (e.g., Engwall, 2003).…”

Inside service-intensive projects: Analyzing inbuilt tensions

“…Thus, when the project team is dissolved and members are assigned to other tasks, project history and other critical knowledge are at risk of being detached (Defillippi and Arthur, 1998;Prencipe and Tell, 2001). In this research, the terms "post-project" (Engwall, 2003) and "project afterlife" (Söderlund, 2011a) both refer to the point following project handover (Skaates et al, 2002) at which the customer begins to operate the supplied system.…”

“…Until recently, project management research has been keen to describe project management tasks during project planning and implementation (Engwall, 2003;Söderlund, 2004) while project marketing research has been focused mainly on the project sales phase (Cova and Holstius, 1993;Cova et al, 1994;Söderlund, 2011b). Only recently has the post-project stage appeared in the limelight, as the concepts of project afterlife (Söderlund, 2011a) and project endings (Havila and Salmi, 2009) gained in popularity.…”

The four-level project success framework: application and assessment

“…However, these frameworks did not take into account the environment or the context surrounding the project. In fact, the impact of the context on projects is presented in literature (Balachandra & Friar 1997;Engwall 2003;Maaninen-Olsson & Müllern 2009). Many factors that affect project success (such as culture) lie outside the levels mentioned in the previous frameworks, namely, project, product and business.…”