Reproducibility and repricability are the main tools of the scientific method. There are certainly scientific publications about project management. Yet over half of projects result in failure, and most do not deliver value to the organization.
If we have true science in project management, we should be able to reproduce the results of the methodological studies. I have covered in the past that the only known known in project management is that it deals with actions, and those are either executed directly or delegated. That’s it as far as I understand it.
We are dealing with the notorious “soft problem”, i.e. people.
When one looks in the human field of psychology, this gem of a paper “Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science” states the following “Reproducibility is not well understood because the incentives for individual scientists prioritize novelty over replication.” This is certainly even more true for project management. If in psychology “there is still more work to do to verify whether we know what we think we know”, in project management, there is work to be done as to what it is we are able to study. Scientifically.
Some further reading:
https://www.machinedesign.com/archive/scientific-approach-project-management
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