Collaboration problems that appear in a project between people and teams as a project failure factor

Abstract

This thesis describes the major importance of collaboration problems that appear in projects between people and project teams as a project failure factor. These collaboration problems play a significant role in every organization or business around the world. Also, it must be mentioned that the collaboration problems that appear have similarities. This is happening because there are economical, social and political connections through all the countries in the universe that affect the business world. The author examined extended bibliography, conducted interviews and surveys in order to have a clear picture about how the collaboration problems can be faced. Project management’s concepts related to this thesis are described as well as additional research through articles. Also, interviews from the case of the organization of the Greek agricultural insurances are presented, in which collaboration problems are very common. The author’s expectation is to learn how to vanish collaboration problems that appear between people and teams in project management environment. He believes that they play a significant role in order for the projects to be on time, cost and performance.