Managing Complex, High Risk Projects

Franck MARLE (MSc of industrial engineering, Ecole Centrale Lyon, 1997; PhD in project management, Ecole Centrale Paris, 2002) is associate professor in project management at Ecole Centrale Paris for 14 years. He was founder and head of the Project Management Research Group in the Industrial Engineering Laboratory, now transformed into the Risk Management Team. He made his PhD at Ecole Centrale Paris in 2002 about interactions modeling in PSA Peugeot-Citroën internal projects. He is now conducting research works about risk modeling in projects, interactions modeling and assessment, and decision-making in project and multi-projects context. Ludovic-Alexandre VIDAL holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering. He works as a researcher and teacher (assistant professor) at Ecole Centrale Paris. His research interests are  project management, risk management and complex systems. His professional experience includes different industrial domains such as energy, civil engineering, NGOs and the performing arts industry.

Introduction to project management.- Traditional approaches and tools for project management.- Understanding the complexity of projects.- Managing complex projects through risks : a change of paradigm.- Conclusions and perspectives.

“The book … can serve as a trigger point to initiate more research by academics and further commitment from the industry to establish a relation, if any, between the project complexity and the project performance. … This book is a must read for project managers who want to manage a complex project. In fact, based on my experience, most of the large projects fall under the area of “complex” project and hence their project managers should also read this book.” (Aditya Lal, SAP, blogs.sap.com, May 09, 2019)