What is the Iron Triangle, and how has it changed?

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 527-547

  Pollack, Julien ^a   Helm, Jane ^b   Adler, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cost; Iron Triangle; Quality; Scientometrics; Time; Triple Constraint

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045259820     PISSN: 17538378     EISSN: 17538386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJMPB-09-2017-0107     Document Type: Article

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