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This book examines project management in the context of complexity theory and organizations. With the aim of increasing value to stakeholders and increasing project success rate, contributors explore a systemic and organic approach to projects, thereby widening the scope of a project manager's role and the tools and capabilities needed. The text describes a paradigm that is complementary to traditional project management, providing combined insights from ethnography, philosophy, and complexity theory to show a broad view of project management.

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9781466502796

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... thought-provoking, and inspiring. I particularly engaged with the sections on complexity, on the project as a complex adaptive system, and on chronos-versus-kairos time. Some of these issues are starting to emerge as key elements in the future landscape of project-based management ... this text will assist in appreciating, understanding, and accepting the need for project management to be explored and documented in new and different ways. Read this book. It will reward you in many ways, and will probably change the way that you think about project management in the future. -Dr. Steve Leybourne, Boston University A fascinating book bringing a new philosophy and a fresh view to project management. ... provides clear insights on key challenges and dynamics of project implementation in a rapidly changing environment. It is more than a technical reference book for project managers: I found it stimulating, thoughtful, and broadly applicable to any complex management endeavor. -Nicoletta Scannavini, Sr. Marketing Manager, EMEA Financial Institutions Group, A.T. Kearney This book contains precious pages, which bring the readers to an intellectual experience beyond the deepening of the thematic of project management, creating an exploration adventure into the most urgent nodes of the organizational and managerial contemporary experience. -Giuseppe Varchetta, Former Chief of Organizational Development, Unilever, Italy It is very true what this book says about the analogy between projects and systems: a system is a project in progress. It is evident, more than ever, that in a complex system the technical/technological infrastructure is an essential and enabling component, but it is not the whole. -Marco Lisi, System & Operations Manager, European Space Agency

! thought-provoking, and inspiring. I particularly engaged with the sections on complexity, on the project as a complex adaptive system, and on chronos-versus-kairos time. Some of these issues are starting to emerge as key elements in the future landscape of project-based management ! this text will assist in appreciating, understanding, and accepting the need for project management to be explored and documented in new and different ways. Read this book. It will reward you in many ways, and will probably change the way that you think about project management in the future. --Dr. Steve Leybourne, Boston University A fascinating book bringing a new philosophy and a fresh view to project management. ! provides clear insights on key challenges and dynamics of project implementation in a rapidly changing environment. It is more than a technical reference book for project managers: I found it stimulating, thoughtful, and broadly applicable to any complex management endeavor. --Nicoletta Scannavini, Sr. Marketing Manager, EMEA Financial Institutions Group, A.T. Kearney This book contains precious pages, which bring the readers to an intellectual experience beyond the deepening of the thematic of project management, creating an exploration adventure into the most urgent nodes of the organizational and managerial contemporary experience. --Giuseppe Varchetta, Former Chief of Organizational Development, Unilever, Italy It is very true what this book says about the analogy between projects and systems: a system is a project in progress. It is evident, more than ever, that in a complex system the technical/technological infrastructure is an essential and enabling component, but it is not the whole. --Marco Lisi, System & Operations Manager, European Space Agency

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Diego Centanni is a Project Manager for Supreme Group, Edmonton, Canada.

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