Project Management at the Edge of Chaos
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-662-48260-5 (ISBN)
Complexity is a gift that can be made available for the successful implementation of projects, and used to create a new order or to change an existing one. Based on scientific facts, the authors present a systematic approach, which integrates complexity and its multitude of facets and gives practical recommendations for dealing with complexity in projects. The methods paradigm in project management is currently undergoing a massive upheaval. Projects are complex entities that cannot be tackled using traditional methods, such as classical cause and effect approaches. Complexity, and the associated phenomenon of self-organization, is a natural, but hidden designer. It offers a great opportunity in its use as a key driver for the implementation of projects. This requires identification of the principles of complexity and then using these for project management. In this book, the latest findings from natural sciences and brain research are used and transferred within a practice-orientedframework. The authors describe the methods of complexity regulation in projects and how self-organization for the management of projects can be applied.
Dr. Alfred OswaldIFST - Institute for Social Technologies GmbH, 52223 Stolbergearned his doctorate at the RWTH Aachen University in theoretical physics. He is Managing Director of the consulting institute IFST-Institute for Social Technologies GmbH for project management, transformation and innovation management. He is head of the special interest group for Agile Management of GPM eV German Association for Project Management. His field of work is the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations through innovative social technologies. He has many years of experience in the management of innovative and complex projects as well as in the transformation of project-oriented organizations into high-performance organizations.Dr. Jens KöhlerBASF SE, 67056 Ludwigshafenreceived his Diploma in physics from Bonn University and already dealt with subject of complexity in his doctorate. For more than 10 years his main activity is the process analysis and the design and implementation of complex information solutions in R&D. His special interest is the study of the increase of efficiency and effectiveness in project teams by focusing on soft skills and communication processes.Roland Schmitt69469 Weinheim (an der Bergstraße)was first dealing with business- and software development processes after having finished studying electrical engineering. For more than 10 years his field of work has been the management of ICT projects in the logistic and transport sector at DB Systel GmbH in Frankfurt am Main. The scientific studies of the management of projects in Portsmouth/UK have focused his attention on the psycho-social aspects of leadership. As a member of the special interest group of the German Association for Project Management (GPM) Agile Management he works on the subjects complexity and self-organization.
Foreword.- Preface.- Acknowledgement.- Introduction Social techniques and complexity.- Value-creating and value-destroying complexity.- Means of complexity regulation.- Organizational control and ordering parameters (fluide organization).- Shielding of complexity.- Self-organization.- Leadership in complex social systems.- Consequences for management systems (including agile, lean).- Glossary.- Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.4.2018 |
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| Zusatzinfo | XVII, 247 p. 72 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Berlin |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Original-Titel | Projektmanagement am Rande des Chaos |
| Maße | 168 x 240 mm |
| Themenwelt | Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI) |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik | |
| Schlagworte | Business Strategy/Leadership • Complex Systems • Computer Applications • Computer Science • management of computing and information systems • Personality and Social Psychology • Self-Organisation • Social Techniques • Soft Skills • Systemic Project Management |
| ISBN-10 | 3-662-48260-6 / 3662482606 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-662-48260-5 / 9783662482605 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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