About the author
Bent Flyvbjerg is a Danish economic geographer known for research on megaprojects, planning, risk, and cost overruns. He has assembled large comparative datasets to test how major projects perform against their budgets, schedules, and promised benefits.
How Big Things Get Done, co-written with Dan Gardner, turns that work into practical principles: use reference classes, plan carefully, build quickly, prefer modular components, and create conditions in which experience can repeat.
Where to start
Start with How Big Things Get Done for the accessible synthesis of Flyvbjerg's project research and its application from renovations to infrastructure.
