![]() Following the example of the COVID-19 response more generally we are offering evidence speedily from sources which are principally journalistic in order to provide a first analysis of what we believe are important changes in project organizing practice. That has been impossible under current circumstances. Clearly, we have not engaged in fieldwork in order to collect our cases and vignettes. A discussion section reviews the cases for their implications for project organizing theory and a research agenda is be proposed in conclusion. We present this Discoveries paper in the spirit of engaged scholars ( Van de Ven, 2007 Hoffman, 2021) who are problem driven rather than theory driven, so we will not provide a positioning literature review, but address directly the evidence of what has happened. In particular, we focus on schedule compression to deliver outputs to governments to mitigate the immediate impact of the pandemic on health, and, in the slightly longer term, provide a route map to the “new normal” of post-pandemic life. ![]() Extraordinary times call for extraordinary responses, and this paper will focus on radical changes to accepted practice in project organizing in response to the crisis. It is by far the most serious crisis to hit the global economy since 1945, and the worst global pandemic since 1918. The COVID-19 pandemic that swept the world during 2020 has had profound social and economic consequences that will have a long-term effect on economy and society ( British Academy, 2021).
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