Anglický jazyk

The Metis of Projects

Vydavateľstvo: Information Age Publishing
Rok vydania: 2014
Formát: Hardback
Rozmer: 240 x 161 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781623967369

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O knihe

A volume in I.S.C.E. Book Series Managing the Complex
Series Editors Michael Lissack and Kurt A. Richardson, ISCE Research
"The Metis of Projects" addresses veteran project manager Ben Berndt's unease with the use of
established (project) management frameworks given their general inefficacy. Despite the use of
these frameworks, it is estimated that some 30% of projects still fail because they deliver too late,
cost more than expected and/or lack quality. Often, projects and their environments are too
complex to be controlled by rather linear frameworks. Where most practitioners define complexity
as "complicated," most academics define complexity (more correctly) as interrelatedness. In recent years, the academic community has
developed several "level-of-complexity frameworks;" however, these frameworks are not commonly known to practitioners and are
therefore not regularly used. And, when examined further, these frameworks appear to be merely environmental scans, used to assess
the level of complexity in the project management environment. But projects also carry inherent complexity; they are socially complex,
and it is this social complexity that-paradoxically-needs management. Combined with personality assessments, social network
theory is used here to glean a better understanding of the social complexity in a project. Berndt believes that, following Hugo Letiche
and Michael Lissack's emergent coherence concept, managers should steer clear of frameworks in order to come to grips with the
complex, and so he introduces whole systems methodologies, in which group understanding is used to continually set a next step.
Berndt concludes his study by describing his multi-view, multi-tool participative project management style, which he thinks best aligns
with (managing) the complex.