Building of Post-project Management

Abstract

Traditional project management often ignores problems arising after project completion such as value changing, functional decline, waste of resources and environmental pollution during the operation and dismantling process. This paper advances the concept of “post-project”, builds a framework for post-project management with case analysis, as the social development and new requirements for project management by environmental protection. Post-project refers to a project which no longer possesses normal value, because of loss after use, inability to adapt to new requirements, artificial destruction, damage beyond control, and deprivation of value after the completion of the project. Post-project management encompasses a series of management and technical activities including updating, reforming, removal, recovery, and recycling. The process of post-project management is composed of classification and characteristics of post-projects, management decisions, implementation, and evaluation. Post-project management can realize the sustainable development of project and society.

Keywords

project management, life cycle / project update, project remake, project removal, project restoration, project recycling

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Acknowledgment

The research work for this paper is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51408266), Ministry of Education in China Project of Humanities and Social Sciences(No. 14YJCZH047), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2014M561600), and Foundation of Jiangsu University (No.14JDG012).

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