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course be described in more detail by identifying a number of important activities assumed totake place before the project is locked in and production starts. Some activities are, however,assumed to be more important than other. This implies that in this paper it is not intended tobring closer descriptions of all front-end activities that can be identified in the case project.Focus is put on the activities related to the basic design of the project.EMPIRICAL SETTINGData collection and methodsTo exemplify the use of the approach, data from a case study originally gathered to study howthe industrial network model could be applied to describe the network and manageuncertainty 3 is analysed. The data has later been supplemented merely by access to writtensources of project information.In the terminology of Yin (2003), this is a single case study. Separate sets of research materialhave been used, particularly a combination of personal qualitative experience and quantitativedecision support information. The data reported here primarily stem from personal meetingsand interviews, telephone interviews, review of project documents and reports from projectmanagement consultants and government. The data collection was mainly done betweenSeptember 2002 and May 2003, and later supplemented between May 2004 and December2005. Since focus was put on the project’s network, also sources of information outside theproject were used. This means that the focal project’s identity in the network could be3 The results from that study are presented and discussed in more detail in Magnussen andRästad (2003).18