Table 1 Questionnaire themes and...

Table 1

Questionnaire themes and associated literature

Theme	Definition	Measure
Project management practices and environment
Project approaches	The typical project approaches utilised in the practitioners' environment	Determine if the practitioners utilise more predictive project management or more iterative project management
Team location	The extent to which the core team works in the same location	How the location of core team members affects responsiveness to change by facilitating communication, meetings, ability to overcome challenges, solve problems and make decisions (Chen et al., 2010)
Project interaction	The extent of interaction between the team and customer	How often the team and customer interact to discuss project topics (Conforto et al., 2016)
Delivery environment	Project environment is set up for shorter delivery cycles	How often the team can do incremental deliveries to reduce uncertainty (Conforto et al., 2016; Svejvig et al., 2019; Zidane et al., 2018)
Project team collaboration
Communication media preferences	Communication media preferences	Determine the communication media typically utilised
Uncertainty management	The level of acceptance of uncertainty and response to change compared to following a predefined plan	The team's ability to accept change and uncertainty (López-Alcarria et al., 2019)
Project process ability to respond to change	Management processes in place to enable change	Project management process designed to execute strategy, exercise capability and enable change when required (Worley et al., 2016)
Project manager's ability to respond to change	Four roles a project manager needs to fulfil to respond to uncertainty	Ability to develop collaboration, integrate planning and enable learning, prevent disruptions and maintain momentum (Laufer et al., 2015)
Collaboration practices	Collaborative problem- solving environment	Collaborative problem-solving (Sting et al., 2015)
Project team practices
Team practices	Manager-driven, manager-assisted, team-driven	Determine the team approach; manager- driven, manager-assisted, team-driven (Hoda and Noble, 2017)
Team building	Deliberate effort to build the team	The team is deliberately built and not just put together (Aga et al., 2016)
Leadership
Team structure	Reporting lines of the project team	Questions are derived from team management (López-Alcarria et al., 2019)
Team management	Project team communication and decision-making	Questions are derived from team management (López-Alcarria et al., 2019)
Autonomy	Decision-making responsibility in project team	Questions are derived from team management (López-Alcarria et al., 2019)
Management	Driving-adopting-empowering	Determine the management approach - driving-adopting-empowering (Hoda and Noble, 2017)
Decision-making	Time taken to make decisions	Decision-making time (Conforto et al., 2016)
Team reflection and learning
Learning	Team learning process	The process through which the team gains or creates knowledge (Chen et al., 2010)
Lessons learnt process	Lessons learnt integration in project phases	Access, update and use of lessons learnt integrated in project management process (Mcclory et al., 2017)
Reflective practice	Learning integration in project team	Reflective practices, limited-focussed-embedded (Hoda and Noble, 2017)

Theme	Definition	Measure
Project management practices and environment
Project approaches	The typical project approaches utilised in the practitioners' environment	Determine if the practitioners utilise more predictive project management or more iterative project management
Team location	The extent to which the core team works in the same location	How the location of core team members affects responsiveness to change by facilitating communication, meetings, ability to overcome challenges, solve problems and make decisions (Chen et al., 2010)
Project interaction	The extent of interaction between the team and customer	How often the team and customer interact to discuss project topics (Conforto et al., 2016)
Delivery environment	Project environment is set up for shorter delivery cycles	How often the team can do incremental deliveries to reduce uncertainty (Conforto et al., 2016; Svejvig et al., 2019; Zidane et al., 2018)
Project team collaboration
Communication media preferences	Communication media preferences	Determine the communication media typically utilised
Uncertainty management	The level of acceptance of uncertainty and response to change compared to following a predefined plan	The team's ability to accept change and uncertainty (López-Alcarria et al., 2019)
Project process ability to respond to change	Management processes in place to enable change	Project management process designed to execute strategy, exercise capability and enable change when required (Worley et al., 2016)
Project manager's ability to respond to change	Four roles a project manager needs to fulfil to respond to uncertainty	Ability to develop collaboration, integrate planning and enable learning, prevent disruptions and maintain momentum (Laufer et al., 2015)
Collaboration practices	Collaborative problem- solving environment	Collaborative problem-solving (Sting et al., 2015)
Project team practices
Team practices	Manager-driven, manager-assisted, team-driven	Determine the team approach; manager- driven, manager-assisted, team-driven (Hoda and Noble, 2017)
Team building	Deliberate effort to build the team	The team is deliberately built and not just put together (Aga et al., 2016)
Leadership
Team structure	Reporting lines of the project team	Questions are derived from team management (López-Alcarria et al., 2019)
Team management	Project team communication and decision-making	Questions are derived from team management (López-Alcarria et al., 2019)
Autonomy	Decision-making responsibility in project team	Questions are derived from team management (López-Alcarria et al., 2019)
Management	Driving-adopting-empowering	Determine the management approach - driving-adopting-empowering (Hoda and Noble, 2017)
Decision-making	Time taken to make decisions	Decision-making time (Conforto et al., 2016)
Team reflection and learning
Learning	Team learning process	The process through which the team gains or creates knowledge (Chen et al., 2010)
Lessons learnt process	Lessons learnt integration in project phases	Access, update and use of lessons learnt integrated in project management process (Mcclory et al., 2017)
Reflective practice	Learning integration in project team	Reflective practices, limited-focussed-embedded (Hoda and Noble, 2017)

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