3rd Position
A01=Julien Pollack
A01=Kaye Remington
advanced management techniques
Author_Julien Pollack
Author_Kaye Remington
Category=KJMP
complex project management tools
complexity
cycle
directional
Directional Complexity
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fitness
Fitness Landscape
landscape
life
Link Matrix
manager
Managing Product Development Projects
multimethodology approaches
Organisational Breakdown Structure
Precedence Network
Problem Structuring Approach
Problem Structuring Methodology
project complexity analysis
Project Life Cycle
Quantity Surveyor
risk interdependencies
Role Capabilities
Satisficing Solution
Social Constructivist Philosophies
SSM.
Standard Project Management
Standard Project Management Processes
Standard Project Management Tools
structural uncertainty
systems thinking
team
temporal
Temporal Complexity
traditional
Traditional Project Management
Traditional Project Management Techniques
Traditional Project Management Tools
UK Construction Industry
Virtual Gates
Work Breakdown Structures
Product details
- ISBN 9780566087417
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Traditional project management approaches assume that project contexts are unchanging and key factors, though complicated, are reducible to unambiguous elements for management and control. Whilst this assumption has simplified the task for writers and educators, it is increasingly being recognised that these techniques do not work in projects which may be described as complex (due to their size, technical difficulties, conflicting environmental and political constraints or poorly understood or shared goals). Tools for Complex Projects draws on research in the areas of project management, complexity theory and systems thinking to provide a ready reference for understanding and managing the increasing complexity of projects and programmes. The main part of the book provides a series of fourteen project tools. Some of these tools may be used at the level of the whole project life-cycle. Others may be applied ad hoc at any time. In each case, the authors provide: detailed guidelines for using the tool, information on its purpose and the types of complexity for which it is most appropriate, the theoretical background to the tool, a practical example of its use, and any necessary words of caution. This is an example of advanced project management at work; sophisticated tools that require a level of project and management expertise and offer rigorous and highly practical methods for understanding, structuring and managing the most complex of projects.
Kaye Remington and Julien Pollack have extensive experience in extending project management concepts into many fields in practice, education and research, integrating material from fields not traditionally associated with project management. Kaye Remington has 25 years project management and senior management experience and until very recently was Course Director of the Master of Project Management program at the University of Technology Sydney. Julien Pollack has experience in the delivery of complex strategic development projects and has recently been awarded national and international awards for applied research in project management and systems thinking.
