“Not Sufficiently Understanding What Is Not Being Understood” - Analysis of Projects’ Final Reports in University of Helsinki

10 pages•Published: November 6, 2025

Abstract

Professional project management practices require a final report to be produced by the project staff and approved by the steering group upon the conclusion of the project. The value of the final report depends on how this information is used and refined. If there is no clear process to utilize the information in final reports to benefit the organization, valuable opportunities to improve organizational practices are being lost. The University of Helsinki conducted an analysis of projects’ final reports to improve project management practices. The analysis revealed development areas in the University’s project culture, service unit cooperation, and the determination of the size of projects.

Keyphrases: it project management, project final report, project management

In: Laurence Desnos, Raimund Vogl, Lazaros Merakos, Carmen Diaz, Janina Mincer-Daszkiewicz and Stuart Mclellan (editors). Proceedings of EUNIS 2025 annual congress in Belfast, vol 107, pages 78-87.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/TbNb
	https://doi.org/10.29007/qzgk

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{EUNIS2025:“Not_Sufficiently_Understanding_What,
  author    = {Antti Eväsoja},
  title     = {“Not Sufficiently Understanding What Is Not Being Understood” - Analysis of Projects’ Final Reports in University of Helsinki},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of EUNIS 2025 annual congress in Belfast},
  editor    = {Laurence Desnos and Raimund Vogl and Lazaros Merakos and Carmen Diaz and Janina Mincer-Daszkiewicz and Stuart Mclellan},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Computing},
  volume    = {107},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-7340},
  url       = {/publications/paper/TbNb},
  doi       = {10.29007/qzgk},
  pages     = {78-87},
  year      = {2025}}

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