Learning Curves: Project Performance and the Project Cycle
Asian Development Bank | September 2008
Abstract
Despite a general trend to higher numbers of projects being rated successful or better over the past few years, issues of project performance and project quality continue to occur in projects funded by ADB.An evaluation of this situation identified 17 common factors which affected project success.
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Asian Development Bank. 2008. Learning Curves: Project Performance and the Project Cycle. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/3391. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Job Evaluation
Evaluation
Performance Evaluation
Program Evaluation
The Development Agenda
Staff Development
Skills Development
Asian Development Bank
ADB
Employment
Performance appraisal
Project failure
Project impact
Project appraisal
Career development
Job analysis
Self-evaluation
Supervisors
Vocational guidance
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