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Complexity in Projects of Greek State Reforms: National Cadastre

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Conference: 2014 PMI Global Congress Proceedings
At: Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Authors:

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World Bank

LITHOS Consulting Engineers

This paper presents the lessons learned from the application of PMI’s Practice Guide “Navigating Complexity” towards the management of a program of 136 cadaster related projects undertaken by the National Cadaster and Mapping Agency of Greece (NCMA S.A.). These projects have a budget of approximately 1 billion USD. The complexity of the endeavor is enormous. Complexity resulting from system behavior, as well as from human behavior and ambiguity, is constantly present in the program affecting, planning, execution, resources and objectives. The use of the Guide has created awareness, proactive responses to emergent issues as well as certain successful outcomes of issues that were created from self-organization of certain program components. The completion of cadastre and land management system is a key factor for Greek economic recovery and the whole program is a top nationality priority.

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