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Minimizing the Impact of Project Overrun: efficiently handling project cost and time

Syed, 2025

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Syed I
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This thesis focuses on understanding the reasons for project overruns that have been recurring in the case company's projects. It aims at finding actionable approaches that can prevent or significantly minimize the overruns in the projects. The goal is to find out why …
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